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re: LSU & LSUPD sued by man falsely arrested for bomb threats after his phone was stolen

Posted on 12/20/19 at 3:16 pm to
Posted by lsupride87
Member since Dec 2007
112584 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 3:16 pm to
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I don't see the problem here.
Are your Russian? Chinese?

You dont see the problem with an innocent person being arrested and kicked out of school?
Posted by 9Fiddy
19th Hole
Member since Jan 2007
67143 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 3:19 pm to
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He was kicked out of Baton Rouge Community College after his arrest

Good lord. BRCC enforcing morality standards now??? And expelling him?
Posted by broadhead
Member since Oct 2014
2602 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 3:20 pm to
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This exact scenario happened to 3 of my friends in Baton Rouge.. the thieves know they need your pass code to turn off find my iphone and what not


They need the icloud password to do that. I'm assuming they wanted the screen unload code but who knows.
Posted by 9Fiddy
19th Hole
Member since Jan 2007
67143 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 3:22 pm to
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I think she forgot that just because you have obtained an arrest warrant from a judge, you don’t have to execute it if new information is brought to light that exonerates the suspect.

Her supervisor should have been the checks and balances.

The question is how long did the suspect tell the officers before they confirmed his story and released him? As soon as they had knocked on the door, I would have been saying over and over, "Call BRPD, I just finished filing a report."
Posted by FalseProphet
Mecca
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 12/20/19 at 3:25 pm to
Yea. Liability will depend on what the officers knew and when.

A couple of basic premises at play here. To my knowledge, there is no requirement to check other jurisdictions' records to see if there is exculpatory evidence, so all good in serving the warrant. Also, you do not have to credit a suspect's innocent explanations until you have time to perform a reasonable further investigation - plus the warrant was likely already valid. There is no obligation to stop an authorized arrest because someone says they are innocent.

I think here, it really turns on how long they kept him locked up until they figured it out.
Posted by lsupride87
Member since Dec 2007
112584 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 3:26 pm to
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This sounds just a wee bit unbelievable.
Can you not read?

Hillar Moore looked at cell records. It is clear the time the tweets were made that the kid was with BRPD filing his report.

quote:

Moore said his office reviewed all court-ordered telecommunication call data records and social media account data.

"It is clear from the evidence that Evan James did not make the unlawful communication and he could not have initiated the communication through others," Moore said.
Posted by The People
LSU Alumni
Member since Aug 2008
4461 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 3:26 pm to
Agreed.

I am assuming he declared the information immediately, but was still arrested thus prompting the suit.

Innocent people talk, a lot.
This post was edited on 12/20/19 at 3:28 pm
Posted by X123F45
Dictated not Read
Member since Apr 2015
30038 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 3:27 pm to
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Officer Sarah Drake who executed Evan James' arrest.


If this is that little 5ft butch bitch, she wrote me a ticket on an lsu game day for noise pollution in front of the chimes because I was playing the fight song at full volume
Posted by ProjectP2294
West St. Louis County
Member since May 2007
79651 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 3:43 pm to
What happened to the guy sucks, but is it really worth suing over?
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