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Super job, Marcy! One comment with reply:

Sarah blum @sarahchblum Is this legal?
6:42 AM · Jan 27, 2024
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emptywheel @emptywheel·
2h Yes. Prosecutors get WIDE berth to be dicks.

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David Weiss’ Indict First, Seek Warrants Later Ethic

January 19, 2024/76 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden /by emptywheel

I want to further elaborate on a point in this post .. https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/01/17/the-coke-in-gun-actually-harms-david-weiss-case/ : It appears that David Weiss did not obtain a reliable warrant for the most showy evidence in his response motion .. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82797/gov.uscourts.ded.82797.68.0.pdf .. to Hunter’s selective and vindictive prosecution claim until after he indicted Hunter for 3 gun felonies — indeed, he appears not to have obtained it until after Abbe Lowell asked for this kind of evidence.

I think it likely that, as a result, David Weiss will technically be relying on evidence from the laptop he obtained from John Paul Mac Isaac, which (as I’ll show in a follow-up), may be a particularly acute problem for the period in question.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/01/19/david-weiss-indict-first-seek-warrants-later-ethic/