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Today's Boston Globe has an update on everyone's favorite NFL team owner:

The case will be heard by a Florida appeals court.   The lower court judge has asked the appeals court to consider 3 questions:

1.  Does Kraft 4th Amendment issues here to argue.   I assume the judge is referring to the claim that the evidence presented to get the "sneak peek" video cameras installed was flawed and fatally so as no due diligence was applied to learn if there was probable cause for the warrant.   (I maintain that this will be the vehicle that gets this before the SCOTUS.)

2.  Did LE apply correct standards to when they would roll the film to the events they viewed in the massage parlor?  The "dropped his boxers" was the standard used, but was that the least invasive?   (I could see a court deciding that that was a reasonable standard.)

3.Did the lower court get it all wrong entirely such that the warrant was OK to begin with?  (This one is very odd.  Why would a judge, once having made a ruling decide to ask if he was right?)

 
To see the article you need a Boston Globe subscription, so you may not find this, but perhaps a wire service will pick it up.

The Globe reporter, John R Ellement seems to actually have a brain.   So refreshing these days.

GaGambler2950 reads

but there is a reason Kraft hired real lawyers and not you to defend him. As I predicted from the beginning his best defense was to have the illegal videos suppressed and that's exactly what happened today. The warrant was quashed and all "the fruit of the poisoned" tree was thrown out along with the governments case. Without the illegally obtained "sex tapes" I can't imagine the government having much of a case. As I said on the very first day, the other defendants were VERY lucky to have someone like Kraft as a co-defendant.

 
I think all of us can breathe a little easier knowing that Big Brother only has so much reach and that it's now VERY unlikely that anything like this could happen to any of us. Let's celebrate a victory for the good guys today, even if you do hate the Patriots. lol

 
Sorry I didn't include a link, but I am not sure about TER's current position about allowing them. It's very easy to Google however.

With FOSTA/SETSA, I imagine (though I have no personal knowledge) that every municipality with a hard on for Vice arrests is now proposing prostitution stings as anti-trafficking programs, rather than "nuisance reduction."  
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Flying the "Trafficking Flag" gets them funding, local politician support (because what elected official is going to say no to anti-trafficking efforts?), and when the busts roll in, national media attention.  So a huge "atta boy" to all who got in on the right side of this LE effort.  
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But as has been pointed out earlier, virtually NONE of the charges filed ever include actual trafficking violations. They all reduce to simple prostitution, whether the defendant fights, or pleads out.  
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And the preliminary data about the adverse impact of FOSTA/SETSA on SW's is ringing true to the predictions. SW's are much less safe in the post legislation world.

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