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Prosecutors appeal ruling banning Kraft prostitution video
Source: Associated Press
Prosecutors appeal ruling banning Kraft prostitution video
By TERRY SPENCER
October 2, 2019
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge made several errors when he threw out video evidence allegedly showing New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft twice paying for sex at a Florida massage parlor, prosecutors argued in a court document, keeping alive their case against one of the NFL’s most prominent personalities.
The state attorney general’s office filed its argument with the Fourth District Court of Appeal late Tuesday, just before a deadline that likely would have meant the dismissal of Kraft’s second-degree misdemeanor charge. It says that Palm Beach County Judge Leonard Hanser made several errors in his May ruling, and argues that even if he didn’t, he went too far by suppressing the recordings police secretly made in January at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa.
They said Hanser erred when he ruled that Jupiter police detectives and the judge who issued the warrant allowing the secret installation of cameras at the spa did not do enough to minimize the invasion of privacy of customers who received legal massages. They said even if justices agree with Hanser that more should have been done to protect the innocent, it shouldn’t protect Kraft, whom they say clearly paid for sex.
They also argued that even if the warrant was faulty, the detectives executed it in good faith, which courts have ruled is usually sufficient for evidence to be used in court, because doing otherwise allows criminal activity to go unpunished.
The prosecutors said Jupiter Police Department detectives lawfully obtained the warrant allowing them to secretly install cameras in the spa’s massage rooms and lobby, after spending days observing almost exclusively men entering the spa, obtaining trash that showed sex occurred there and interviewing customers after they left who admitted paying for sex.
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By TERRY SPENCER
October 2, 2019
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge made several errors when he threw out video evidence allegedly showing New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft twice paying for sex at a Florida massage parlor, prosecutors argued in a court document, keeping alive their case against one of the NFL’s most prominent personalities.
The state attorney general’s office filed its argument with the Fourth District Court of Appeal late Tuesday, just before a deadline that likely would have meant the dismissal of Kraft’s second-degree misdemeanor charge. It says that Palm Beach County Judge Leonard Hanser made several errors in his May ruling, and argues that even if he didn’t, he went too far by suppressing the recordings police secretly made in January at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa.
They said Hanser erred when he ruled that Jupiter police detectives and the judge who issued the warrant allowing the secret installation of cameras at the spa did not do enough to minimize the invasion of privacy of customers who received legal massages. They said even if justices agree with Hanser that more should have been done to protect the innocent, it shouldn’t protect Kraft, whom they say clearly paid for sex.
They also argued that even if the warrant was faulty, the detectives executed it in good faith, which courts have ruled is usually sufficient for evidence to be used in court, because doing otherwise allows criminal activity to go unpunished.
The prosecutors said Jupiter Police Department detectives lawfully obtained the warrant allowing them to secretly install cameras in the spa’s massage rooms and lobby, after spending days observing almost exclusively men entering the spa, obtaining trash that showed sex occurred there and interviewing customers after they left who admitted paying for sex.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/a49c3240b4e64727af8ba21b60bedd9f
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