Re: Texas Polygamists--sf in real life?

In article <h1r614thuho85d5crfsqafc6aophg27etq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Tim Merrigan  <tppm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>What ought to, but isn't going to, happen at that point is that the
>whole thing should be thrown out and all detained parties and seized
>property returned, on the grounds of no valid probable cause for the
>original warrants.  BTW the last I heard, a couple days ago, is that

Under the "poison tree" doctrine, if the original search was bogus,
the cops can't use anything as evidence.  I'm not sure if everything
has to be given back--if, during an illegal search of my apartment,
the cops find cocaine, a sawed off shotgun, some weapons-grade plutonium,
and a couple of dead bodies that can be identified as a couple of kids
who disappeared off of a playground last month, I don't think I'll be
getting any of that stuff back.  What I am pretty sure is NOT covered
under the poison tree, though, is living persons.  If the cops search
my apartment and find several pregnant 15 year olds, I will NOT be allowed
to keep them no matter how illegal the original search was.  If the
girls were kidnapped against their parents' will, they will be returned
to their parents' custody; however, if it can be determined that I
obtained the girls with their parents' collusion, then they will be put
into the foster care system.  And that is the case we have in Texas;
the "Spiritual Marriage" do***ents show that underage girls were given
to older men with the knowledge of their parents, and the pregnancies
prove that these older men did in fact has *** with them.  THe fact that
14 year olds could marry in Texas three years ago has nothing to do with
the case of a pregnant 15 year old or 16 year old with a child more than
three months old today.

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