Other State Charges to be dismissed against California farmer

[User 1234]

Weapons charges against member of Bakersfield farming family to be dismissed after judge finds warrant based on faulty information

DoJ submitted false facts to judge to obtain warrant; testified it was a mistake based on misreading spreadsheet.

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[E4mafia]

Poor guy.

All this because of some red tape and clerical error.

 

[DB is Here]

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
-Ronald Reagan

 

[Tangent123123]

I question if it really was a clerical error or they ended up with a CA judge that wasn't going to ramrod a guilty plea through on an evil gunowner so they were caught with their pants down. Darn those excel rows and columns, so easy to mix up.

 

[Stomper]

C'mon.... nobody wants to take your guns, stop being paranoid!

 

[Goosebrown]

C'mon.... nobody wants to take your guns, stop being paranoid!

They MISREAD A SPREADSHEET.

Geez Stomper. In this new era with newfangled things like the inter web and spreadsheets it's a honest mistake. How many people even know what a spreadsheet is? 1? 2%?

 

[awshoot]

It's a win, but it still probably cost him $5k at minimum, probably a lot more.

EDIT: His bail was $150,000 ( Member of prominent farming family faces felony weapons charges ). According to this: Bail Costs - Bail Bonds Cost - Your Legal Guide the cost of a bail bond is usually a non-refundable 10%. So unless he had $150k to put up out of his bank account, that cost him $15k alone.

 

[Oathkeeper1775]

Court battles are usually phase two of defending one's self. Part of the pkg.

Judged by 12...or carried by 6.

 

[surevaliance]

Nazi in action.

 

[titsonritz]

Poor guy.

All this because of some red tape and clerical error.

It's like the typo in the movie Brazil

 

[awshoot]

It's like the typo in the movie Brazil

Except here the typo sets him free. He's a lucky dude.

 

[GWS]

Now it will take the farmer 5 years to get his stuff back from the CA DOJ.

 

[nwslopoke]

First off I wasn't aware California had visiting judges. Can't believe an actual California judge would see passed the liberal narrative and serve real justice. Thank you judge.

From what I remember of this case the family was trying to comply with the poorly contrived system of California registration that lead to confiscation. Luckily this family had resources to fight back. Something California wasn't counting on. Thankfully one of their early examples ended in a big fat failure.

 

[P7M13]

Heads up California. PD are using someone inside DoJ / BATF to examine records of who owned what and hunting down people who USED to be law abiding folk and MAY now be criminals. The world is so much safer now.

 

[Camelfilter]

It's like the typo in the movie Brazil

 

[Mikej]

These final lines in the article are what really bites.

"This is a great object lesson in what can go wrong when an agency like the Department of Justice doesn't give its agents the information they need," he said.

This is an upstanding, productive citizen of The U.S.A. Sending a bunch of agents out to toss this guys house for guns sounds more like Nazi Germany where they searched for Jews hiding under houses. Even if the warrant were valid seems to me they should go after REAL criminals on the streets that actually cause harm to the public daily.

 

[Slobray]

Now it will take the farmer 5 years to get his stuff back from the CA DOJ.

Yeah, he'll get some of his stuff back, but it looks like they are going to destroy all of the guns they stole from him................

"All the firearms that were seized, or among the firearms that were seized, basically, all them would be legal in other states, just not in California, so, they will have to be turned over to law enforcement to disposed of out of state," Staiger said, adding that Kirschenmann will get back the ammunition and high-capacity magazines that were taken.

Judge dismisses illegal weapons charges against local farmer

Effin bastards.


Ray

 

[Member 52301]

These final lines in the article are what really bites.

"This is a great object lesson in what can go wrong when an agency like the Department of Justice doesn't give its agents the information they need," he said.

This is an upstanding, productive citizen of The U.S.A. Sending a bunch of agents out to toss this guys house for guns sounds more like Nazi Germany where they searched for Jews hiding under houses. Even if the warrant were valid seems to me they should go after REAL criminals on the streets that actually cause harm to the public daily.

^^^

This!

Cate

 

[Member 52301]

Yeah, he'll get some of his stuff back, but it looks like they are going to destroy all of the guns they stole from him................

Judge dismisses illegal weapons charges against local farmer

Effin bastards.


Ray

So he doesn't get PAID for what they want to destroy?

Insanity! Theft and tons more.

Cate

 

[GWS]

So he doesn't get PAID for what they want to destroy?

Insanity! Theft and tons more.

Cate

I'm certain their logic is that the guns are no different from illicit drugs and they would not return those if a search warrant was found to be bogus.