Roger Stone's attorneys filed a motion today asking the court to suppress all evidence gathered as a result of the search of his home. Stone claims that the search was improper. Simply put, Stone's attorneys argue that each of the "crimes" that were named as the basis for the search warrant obtained for the search were completely dependent on Russians being responsible for hacking the DNC computers as well as for transmitting the documents on those computers to Wikileaks. Stone's lawyers further point out that when the FBI sought the warrants, it had no valid basis (and could have no such basis) to conclude that the Russians did this hacking or transmission to Wikileaks. The FBI never actually examined to DNC computers to determine who had done the hacking. Instead, the FBI let the Democrats hire their own "consultant" who reported to them a conclusion that it was the Russians. In other words, the FBI has no way to validly prove that there was a crime here, so there is no basis for the warrant.
Let's use an example to make this clearer. Let's say that Mr. Smith reports that he hasn't seen his wife for two weeks and he believes she was murdered. The police don't have a body and aside from Mr. Smith's belief, they have no basis to prove that Mrs. Smith was murdered. The police go to a judge to seek a warrant to search Mr. Jones' house on the basis that Jones was involved the murder of Mrs. Smith. The judge can't issue a warrant; Mrs. Smith may not have been murdered. The police lack probable cause to obtain a warrant. If the police mislead the court to get a warrant here, then anything found in the resulting search will be suppressed by court order.
This motion is going to force the prosecutors to come forward with an explanation as to why they say the DNC was hacked by Russians. The only other choice would be for the prosecutors to drop the charges against Roger Stone.
For all we know, the entire "hack" of the DNC computers could have just been an inside job.
Let's use an example to make this clearer. Let's say that Mr. Smith reports that he hasn't seen his wife for two weeks and he believes she was murdered. The police don't have a body and aside from Mr. Smith's belief, they have no basis to prove that Mrs. Smith was murdered. The police go to a judge to seek a warrant to search Mr. Jones' house on the basis that Jones was involved the murder of Mrs. Smith. The judge can't issue a warrant; Mrs. Smith may not have been murdered. The police lack probable cause to obtain a warrant. If the police mislead the court to get a warrant here, then anything found in the resulting search will be suppressed by court order.
This motion is going to force the prosecutors to come forward with an explanation as to why they say the DNC was hacked by Russians. The only other choice would be for the prosecutors to drop the charges against Roger Stone.
For all we know, the entire "hack" of the DNC computers could have just been an inside job.
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