[Vision2020] OUCH!

[Paul Rumelhart]

I've always heard that anything that they can openly see while there for other reasons is free game.  We don't know if the closet was open or closed, or whether or not it was in plain view.  If the "growing operation" was not in plain view then I suspect they've screwed any chance they have of pinning that particular charge on them.

Paul

--- On Mon, 12/14/09, Sam Scripter <moscowsam at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Sam Scripter <moscowsam at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] OUCH!
> To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Date: Monday, December 14, 2009, 10:57 AM
> 
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>   
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>  
> I ask that below
> out of
> ignorance and curiosity . . .
> 
> 
> 
> Re: Spokesman Review story -- Boy shot in groin
> 
> 
> 
> Question: Why/what business does a Sheriff's officer
> have to be
> 
> looking in closets while investigating what appears to be
> an accidental
> 
> shooting, and most likely had nothing to do with closet
> contents? E.g.,
> 
> is anything sacred and private in one's dwelling . . .
> The attic, the
> 
> basement, the garage . . .
> 
> 
> 
> Question more specifically: Is a resident's whole
> dwelling and 
> 
> property/lot up for investigation, once a "peace"
> officer is inside 
> 
> the dwelling, at the whim of the officer?
> 
> 
> 
> Sam S
> 
> 
> 
> Tom Hansen wrote:
> 
>   Courtesy of the Spokesman Review.
> 
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> 
> Teen survives shotgun blast to his groin
> 
> A Spokane Valley teenager was shot in the groin by his
> brother who was
> cleaning a shotgun when the weapon discharged Saturday
> evening.
> 
> The shotgun was loaded with bird shot, which passed through
> a sofa before
> striking the teenager in the apparently accidental
> shooting, a Spokane
> County sheriff’s spokesman said.
> 
> The youth, whose injuries were not considered
> life-threatening, was taken
> to a local hospital.
> 
> Officers responding to the shooting at an apartment on the
> 700 block of
> North McDonald Road discovered a small marijuana-growing
> operation in a
> closet of the apartment, the spokesman said. The incident
> remained under
> investigation.
> 
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> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist
> expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
> - Unknown
> 
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