South Texas
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Fellow Family Members, it's been over a month and I can now relate the fucked-up news. Yeah, busted.
While studying (Law) Search & Seizure, Probable Cause & Right to Privacy a fews years back, I realized that, as far as I'm concerned, you can grow whatever you want... legally. Meaning that, if there is no Probable Cause, and the Property clearly portrays the desire to remain private, IE; Fenced in, closed entry, posted signs, etc., then you can't get (legally) busted. All legal steps was taken to assure no probable cause, and without, any Law Dog entering the property does so illegally.
So here comes Sgt. Barny Fife, unfastens the entry gate, drives 1/4 mile to my house(I live on 100 plus acres), to "Visit". That's the best excuse I can give, visit, look for donuts, whatever. Sgt. Barney sees 15 or so Ladies around the front door. This point is critical. Had the Officer left, got permission or some stupid ass excuse to enter private property, I would have been fucked. "A cow was out in the road" would have worked- immediate threat to traffic. But Barney calls his Boss, the Sheriff. I was really relieved at this legal blunder.
While acting within official capacity, which is called protection under color of law, I have no defense. However, once the Bitch made the call, from the first step onto private property, any and all actions thereafter is without legal authority. The Sheriff & 2 more Law Dogs showed up, 4 total. Request to enter house was made, Denied. Sheriff had to drive 50 mile round trip to get warrant. I demanded a warrant to document that the Sheriff had 15 plants to observe outside my house, but didn't believe he had probable cause to enter an unlocked house, where as Barny Fife blatantly stated that he could enter private property because the gate wasn't locked, just a spring loaded locking mechanism. I just smiled.
FDD & I started trimming about the same time, I had about 8 Ladies, amber infested, waiting in line in the house to get their hair cut, also about 18 Oz's of trimmed shit.
They called a van to haul off the shit, All my Ladies, pot, 3 to 4 thousand seeds, 1,000 watt HPS lite with track lighting, scales, heating pads, etc. The smell was so strong from the Master Kush, Afghan & Orange Bud, they had to step outside several times. Maybe 5 lbs. total.
All that work.... The Judge is cool, made sure I could make bail. 6 babies pop up in the soil since, and my special 300 seed stash was still in tack, plus two big Ladies "in the field".
Charges, 5 to 50 lbs. Shit won't start until after the new year. I miss my seeds and shit. Planted 10 seeds yesterday, along with the 6 babies. Working on filing Civil Action Suite for several civil rights violations. The shit will be thrown out of court. I'm still in the 09 Monster Grow Comp. I want the civil suit to keep the dogs at bay for next season. I may even re comp. some loses. It sucks, but I'm back in the saddle. Fuck-em.
While studying (Law) Search & Seizure, Probable Cause & Right to Privacy a fews years back, I realized that, as far as I'm concerned, you can grow whatever you want... legally. Meaning that, if there is no Probable Cause, and the Property clearly portrays the desire to remain private, IE; Fenced in, closed entry, posted signs, etc., then you can't get (legally) busted. All legal steps was taken to assure no probable cause, and without, any Law Dog entering the property does so illegally.
So here comes Sgt. Barny Fife, unfastens the entry gate, drives 1/4 mile to my house(I live on 100 plus acres), to "Visit". That's the best excuse I can give, visit, look for donuts, whatever. Sgt. Barney sees 15 or so Ladies around the front door. This point is critical. Had the Officer left, got permission or some stupid ass excuse to enter private property, I would have been fucked. "A cow was out in the road" would have worked- immediate threat to traffic. But Barney calls his Boss, the Sheriff. I was really relieved at this legal blunder.
While acting within official capacity, which is called protection under color of law, I have no defense. However, once the Bitch made the call, from the first step onto private property, any and all actions thereafter is without legal authority. The Sheriff & 2 more Law Dogs showed up, 4 total. Request to enter house was made, Denied. Sheriff had to drive 50 mile round trip to get warrant. I demanded a warrant to document that the Sheriff had 15 plants to observe outside my house, but didn't believe he had probable cause to enter an unlocked house, where as Barny Fife blatantly stated that he could enter private property because the gate wasn't locked, just a spring loaded locking mechanism. I just smiled.
FDD & I started trimming about the same time, I had about 8 Ladies, amber infested, waiting in line in the house to get their hair cut, also about 18 Oz's of trimmed shit.
They called a van to haul off the shit, All my Ladies, pot, 3 to 4 thousand seeds, 1,000 watt HPS lite with track lighting, scales, heating pads, etc. The smell was so strong from the Master Kush, Afghan & Orange Bud, they had to step outside several times. Maybe 5 lbs. total.
All that work.... The Judge is cool, made sure I could make bail. 6 babies pop up in the soil since, and my special 300 seed stash was still in tack, plus two big Ladies "in the field".
Charges, 5 to 50 lbs. Shit won't start until after the new year. I miss my seeds and shit. Planted 10 seeds yesterday, along with the 6 babies. Working on filing Civil Action Suite for several civil rights violations. The shit will be thrown out of court. I'm still in the 09 Monster Grow Comp. I want the civil suit to keep the dogs at bay for next season. I may even re comp. some loses. It sucks, but I'm back in the saddle. Fuck-em.
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