Well it was anonymous, sort of. He asked for the cop to keep his name out of it and so the cop reported it as anonymous. That isn't at all unusual with police and their narks. And they get paid for good tips - or they used to. I don't know about these days but i think cops still have their narks.
You could have been a paid informant. It's quite lucrative but dangerous.
Yes but he wasn't some average citizen. Calling in to random officer who answered the call. I'm pretty sure I recall most of this.
Yes true yet about sources and narks, just listen to some of the retired big time LE channels. This though was a polygrapher hired by the defense wasn't it? I haven't had a chance to totally read all here but it's not the same is all I'd say, IF I have it right. And don't get me wrong, I do NOT agree with all of the rules and laws. This though isn't the same as some street nark.
All know I hate siding with the D in most cases. And I'm not, but this is different.
Another one is Doerman, totallky different, but as far as not crossing the Is and dotting the Ts, and while I can totally understand the cops' emotion, not knowing what they would encounter, etc., not reading him his Miranda. They responded to a scene of three dead little boys, one maybe still alive if I recall fighting for life, wife injured and panicked, stepdaughter running for help, to a man who had just done all of that having a cigarette but they didn't know any of that as they had to play careful and approach. Totally different, and two very different things, but it does appear they did not do the Miranda thing properly. That judge has thrown some things out due to it. Totally different than the issues here and I don't agree with all of our rules but it does seem a clear violation of what the rules are.
Fortunately in that one, I believe there is SO much evidence, it shouldn't affect his conviction.
There's a balance or should be, we hear most these days playing the corrupt thing, wrongful convictions, etc. but LE is often also hamstrung and it's gotten worse and worse. They DO need to be able to do their job.
I'd like to know the rules on what this polygrapher could do or say. I do not believe he had a right to share this and pick the person he shared it with. Now my opinion of how that should be totally differs from the rules but it is the way it is. IF and that's a big IF, I have it right.
I also really need to be corrected or stand to be corrected if I am wrong, but if I recall, they both knew exactly who they both were and who they called and were talking to, etc. That's not an anonymous tip but it was attempted to be played off as that. Do I have it wrong? I could but don't think so.
It's another again different situation and scenario but in Soto for instance, she got a so called "Queen for a Day Rule". Meaning she could say whatever and they could not go find something based on what she told them, etc. so LONG as she told the TRUTH. I forget what they said but something like if you told us there was a gun or a bullet buried here, for instance, we could not go dig it up and use it based on what you told us if what you say today led us there. We'd have to learn of it some OTHER way for it to be used. Where we would have found it independently of you or your info provided.
Different scenario but some similarities and I'm guessing the evidence ditched was ditched because they were pointed there. And not from their own investigation. I'd have to go back and look but that is not going to happen today. But I think I have it right and again, all can correct me if wrong.
And again there are some laws and rules I don't agree with necessarily but they are the laws and rules. I don't agree with spousal privilege for instance. This will cause controversy but I'm not even sure if I agree with a defendant not having to take the stand. Everyone else has to. 'Other than like spouse which I think is ridiculous nowadays. Marriage isn't sacred to many any longer and some have seven, etc., I mean what about that makes it privileged. It isn't the dark ages. A spouse is not necessarily tighter than a child and some CHILDREN have to take the stand.
Stopping there.
Just saying by the rules we have, I think this was not appropriate and I hate to side that way. I don't know if that's how the Tim Horton and other stuff was found but I believe it probably was. They should have found it on their own. Now it's tainted.