Possible Justice in Drug Raid Gone Wrong?

TimK — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:00:00 -0800

Relying on the word of an informant, over a dozen officers stormed into Ryan Frederick’s home on the night of January 17, 2008, in yet another botched, no-knock drug raid, looking for Marijuana. Ryan was in bed, grabbed his gun. End result: two cops dead.

Now, the prosecutor wants to move the Ryan Frederick case to a different venue because of “adverse and inaccurate publicity.” The judge said, no, we’ll try the case here.

Says Radley Balko:

I’ve never heard of a change of venue being granted to prosecutors over the objections of the defense. None of the defense attorneys I’ve asked about the case could, either.

That Ebert [the prosecutor] even tried I think shows that he knows his case against Frederick is coming apart at the seams.

On top of that, the defense is saying the warrant used for the raid was invalid, because the evidence used to support it was gotten by breaking into Ryan’s home.

Ryan’s next pretrial hearing is scheduled for December 5, and the trial is scheduled to start January 20, 2009.

-TimK

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