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Cyclohexylamine
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[CA] Castro pot bust goes awry 3
#13979987 - 02/17/11 05:06 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Castro pot bust goes awry
www.sfweekly.com
When narcotics officers appeared at a Castro home shortly after 7 a.m. on Jan. 11, they had permission from a judge to search for "proceeds" from an illegal marijuana grow. Fred Noland
The SFPD and DEA found no piles of marijuana money at 243 Diamond St., one of six addresses raided simultaneously in San Francisco that morning. Instead, they found Clark Freshman, who rents the penthouse at the two-unit building. Freshman, a UC Hastings law professor and the main consultant to the television show Lie to Me, was put into handcuffs while in his bathrobe as agents searched, despite Freshman's insistence that they had the wrong place and were breaking the law. "I told them to call the judge and get their warrant updated," he says. "They just laughed at me — I guess that's why they're called pigs."
Soon they may be called defendants in a lawsuit. A furious Freshman has pledged to sue the DEA and the SFPD for unlawful search and seizure of his home.
In his search warrant, Officer Scott Biggs of the SFPD's narcotics unit says that prior to the raid, he spent two days and two nights casing the address looking for Mahmoud Larizadeh, the property's owner. Larizadeh also owns a 13th Street warehouse, a part of which he rents to Bruce Rossignol, a licensed medical cannabis patient who now faces three felony charges for growing pot there.
Biggs describes 243 Diamond as a "two-story, one-unit" building in the warrant. There's no mention of Freshman or Larizadeh's son-in-law or seven-months pregnant daughter who were detained in the downstairs unit that morning. But property records — and a quick visual scan of the property — reveal it to be a three-story, two-unit building. That mistake alone may be enough to invalidate the search warrant.
SFPD offered no comment other than reiterating they had a warrant from Judge Richard Kramer to search 243 Diamond. But Peter Keane, dean emeritus of Golden Gate University's School of Law, says there appears to be a problem. "There's been cases like this in the past where police have a warrant to search [a single residence], then they get there and it's a multi-unit building and they search the whole building. In those cases, people have sued and collected substantial settlements. I think whomever is representing the government better get out his checkbook."
"I've been on the fence for years about the legalization of drugs ... and now I'm a victim of this crazy war on drugs," says Freshman, who pledged to sue until "I see [the agents'] houses sold at auction and their kids' college tuitions taken away from them. There will not be a better litigated case this century."
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Cyclohexylamine
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"I've been on the fence for years about the legalization of drugs ... and now I'm a victim of this crazy war on drugs," says Freshman, who pledged to sue until "I see [the agents'] houses sold at auction and their kids' college tuitions taken away from them. There will not be a better litigated case this century."
May I be the first to say in the words of Nelson Munz:
They probably didn't think he was a law professor. I don't see this ending well for the police force.
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Edited by Cyclohexylamine (02/17/11 05:07 PM)
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The Vapor
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This should be interesting.
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> I don't see this ending well for the police force.
Especially considering he doesn't want a settlement... they won't be able to buy their way out of this one.
> This should be interesting.
Very!
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I'm not gonna lie. I rofl'ed. Any time the cops get it stuck to them, I rejoice. Drug prohibition is stupid.
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i really hope he absolutely nails the dea up the ass
my money is on this guy being dead soon, better get in his paperwork asap!
Edited by shr (02/17/11 06:18 PM)
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Re: [CA] Castro pot bust goes awry [Re: shr]
#13980735 - 02/17/11 07:18 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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hope it sets a good precedent.
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tymoteusz3 said: "I told them to call the judge and get their warrant updated," he says. "They just laughed at me — I guess that's why they're called pigs."
fuck yeah i hope i see a nice follow-up story to this
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Re: [CA] Castro pot bust goes awry [Re: dwtk]
#13981123 - 02/17/11 08:30 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Please update this thread with the outcome whenever that happens...
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TheHandOfDoom said: Please update this thread with the outcome whenever that happens...
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Hilarious, but I have a feeling the police will find a way to settle this. They always seem to weasel their way...
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Re: [CA] Castro pot bust goes awry [Re: Society]
#13981572 - 02/17/11 09:48 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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they don't call them the man for reason.
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Re: [CA] Castro pot bust goes awry [Re: joshisstoned]
#13981611 - 02/17/11 09:54 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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"The Man"
Fuck the police! If I could stop breaking the law (using illegal drugs) I may get over my 5-0 aversion. But in my hometown, the entire force was as crooked as a weathered tree.
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Re: [CA] Castro pot bust goes awry [Re: SmokeaJoint] 1
#13982173 - 02/17/11 11:22 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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This is about half mile from me and I'm hearing all gay friends in Castro BITCH about this rightly. Dea and sfpd collaborating and bothering medical growers who have aids...really they need to fuck off.
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Re: [CA] Castro pot bust goes awry [Re: BothHands] 1
#13983284 - 02/18/11 07:11 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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"I told them to call the judge and get their warrant updated," he says. "They just laughed at me — I guess that's why they're called pigs."
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Re: [CA] Castro pot bust goes awry [Re: Society]
#13983305 - 02/18/11 07:26 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Society said: Hilarious, but I have a feeling the police will find a way to settle this. They always seem to weasel their way...
Usually I would agree But something tells me this isn't going to go away. He sounds really angry, and lets face it lawyers live for this kind of stuff. I would say they don't have a chance
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Fuck the police.
I haven't been following the news in SF much, but how often are raids in unison W/ the DEA happening up there?
Complete fucking joke. Waste of taxpayers money to have the raids anyways, and now the Gov't looks like they are going to get it stuck to them by a law professor. I hope he dry smashes the police and DEA's shit boxes.
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DSTDEASFPDSB
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Re: [CA] Castro pot bust goes awry [Re: joshisstoned]
#13984207 - 02/18/11 11:47 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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a case like this happened involving a duplex in the state i live in and the cops (aka fucktard squad) raided the wrong unit, they found nothing but a frightened 78 year old man shaking in his bed. they trashed the place while the drug dealers next door were flushing their drugs down `el toileto. the old mans family sued the hell out of the county and won a shit ton of cash- it was like 7 or 8 hundred thousand, the greatest part was one of the cops saying "i kept hearing the toilet flushing next door and alot of movement!" stupid fucker.
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