Comment by Mathnerd314
6 years ago
https://www.coalfire.com/Solutions/Coalfire-Labs/Red-Team-Ex... does list physical testing, but who knows what the agreement was.
The case numbers are 05251 FECR042175 and 05251 FECR042176 if anyone's interested: https://www.iowacourts.state.ia.us/ESAWebApp/DefaultFrame. The latest appears to be that this guy is representing them: http://www.grllaw.com/blog/attorneys/Matthew-Lindholm-A3.asp...
Here in Canada the prosecution would have quickly withdrawn the charges. It's pretty clear that they were acting under the color of law, given that the State admitted they hired them. If they went beyond the contract, it seems pretty clear they did it under the mistaken but reasonable belief that they had proper authority to enter. I understand ignorance of law isn't a defense but ignorance of the facts is and it seems pretty clear that's what happened here. It seems unreasonable and unnecessary to hold them in jail and unnecessary to take this to trial. I don't see how proceeding with a prosecution like this could be in the public interest.
> Here in Canada the prosecution would have quickly withdrawn the charges
There in Canada, prosecutors are not elected, because that would be completely batshit insane.
Wait, who elects prosecutors? The public or some other group? I've never heard of going to the voting ballots for anything other than a referendum or electing various levels of legislators (typically municipal, state/province/departement/district/whatever, federal/national, and perhaps transnational like European; in NL we also vote on water boards but they don't really matter as far as I can tell).
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I've up-voted this because I agree with you that the election of prosecutors (and judges) is a bad idea. I suspect you are getting down-voted mostly due to your poor choice of terminology.
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Why is this insane? At least it's some kind of accountability to the public.
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It's in the interest of the lawyers working for the state to enrich themselves and their lawyer friends who will probably take the other side of the case. Money for lawyers everywhere! America works like this because our laws are written by them.
Government lawyers aren't paid by the hour or the case.
For those who, like me, had trouble figuring out the case ID search system:
There are four fields in "case ID". The first is for the county code ("05251"). The second is for city code, which isn't present in these. The third is for the case type, which is FE (felony). The fourth is for the specific case number, which is /CR.*/
EDIT: Sadly, to actually read any of the documents requires a $25/month description.
EDIT2: So apparently those first fields are supposed to be autofilled by the dropdowns, but this doesn't work on my phone. Given the following message on the landing page, this isn't too surprising: "This Web Based Electronic Public Access application requires a 128 bit Cipher Strength on your Internet Explorer. To verify this click on 'Help' menu item and select 'About Internet Explorer'. If it's less than 128 bit click on link 'Update Information' to update Cipher Strength."
Bobby Rehkemper and Lindholm are the shit. They caught a dirty prosecutor a few years back on tape: https://whotv.com/2012/02/20/open-records-sonya-heitshusen-l...
Same Dallas County Attorney is taking a dive on my Qui Tam to claw back Apple's brazen $100m property tax abatement vote bribe to the City of Waukee unjustly enriching the city to abate $170m. Tim Cook is a tax crook.