[governance] Fwd: [IP] Judge Orders NSA To Release Dragnet Surveillance Records For Armed Robbery Case

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Ah thanks. I didn't look this up in pacer

--srs (htc one x)



On 20 June 2013 3:38:28 AM "James S. Tyre" <jstyre at jstyre.com> wrote:
> Except that the story is incorrect.  They’re still wrangling, the court has 
> not yet ordered the government to produce anything.
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> From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org 
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> Ramasubramanian
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> Subject: [governance] Fwd: [IP] Judge Orders NSA To Release Dragnet 
> Surveillance Records For Armed Robbery Case
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> I was laughing at the sheer audacity of the defense lawyer when this first 
> hit the news. Now I am just impressed.
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> --srs (iPad)
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> From: David Farber <farber at gmail.com>
> Date: 20 June 2013 2:58:10 IST
> To: "ip" <ip at listbox.com>
> Subject: [IP] Judge Orders NSA To Release Dragnet Surveillance Records For 
> Armed Robbery Case
> Reply-To: dave at farber.net
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne at warpspeed.com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Judge Orders NSA To Release Dragnet Surveillance 
> Records For Armed Robbery Case
> Date: June 19, 2013 4:51:34 PM EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net at warpspeed.com>
> Reply-To: dewayne-net at warpspeed.com
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> Judge Orders NSA To Release Dragnet Surveillance Records For Armed Robbery Case
> By DSWright
> June 19, 2013
> <http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/06/19/judge-orders-nsa-to-release-dragnet-surveillance-records-for-armed-robbery-case/>
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> In what could become a precedent-setting legal battle, a Florida judge has 
> ordered that the NSA provide the court with phone records of a man accused 
> of armed robbery. What does this case have to do with national security? 
> Absolutely nothing, but the records exist and could exonerate the man.
>
> In wake of the NSA surveillance scandal, a Florida judge has demanded that 
> the federal agency hand over the phone records of a man charged with 
> attempted robbery, to help solve a case that culminated in a murder.
>
> The motion provides a glimpse into how the National Security Agency’s 
> surveillance records could be obtained in the future, now that 
> whistleblowers have revealed details of the controversial spy program
>
> Terrance Brown is on trial in Fort Lauderdale for planning a robbery that 
> resulted in the death of an armored car messenger. Brown’s lawyers say they 
> can not get access to Brown’s phone records and that his carrier MetroPCS 
> has lost the records but that the information could prove Brown’s innocence.
>
> The defendant has pleaded not guilty, but prosecutors have relied on the 
> cell phone records of the robbery’s co-conspirators to try to prove Brown’s 
> involvement. Defense attorneys believe that the missing phone records would 
> prove that Brown was not involved in the July 2010 robbery attempt. The 
> revelation of the NSA’s surveillance program has generated hope that 
> Brown’s missing phone records could be obtained, and possibly prove his 
> alleged innocence.
>
> “The government must be ordered to turn over the records for the two 
> telephones that it attributes to Mr. Brown for the dates which are relevant 
> to this case – the month of July of 2010,” attorney Marshall Dore Louis 
> wrote in the motion to compel production of records.
>
> [snip]
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