John Doe targets: Chisholm has no right to share illegally seized ‘evidence’

By M.D. Kittle  /   February 2, 2016  /   News  /   13 Comments

Part 329 of 333 in the series Wisconsin's Secret War

 

Prosecutors in the politically driven John Doe investigation want to share with private attorneys some of the documents they illegally seized in an attempt to sustain a probe declared unconstitutional and dead by the state Supreme Court.  Conservative targets of the abusive investigation point out that inherent conflict in a response to the prosecutors’ motion to amend the John Doe secrecy order.

“Far from benignly seeking an ‘amendment’ of the John Doe secrecy orders, three intervening district attorneys now request this court’s permission to expand – yet again – the still uncounted universe of individuals and organizations with access to confidential bank records, emails and other documents,” states the response, filed Monday in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.  “Those are the same materials this court has ruled, unequivocally and repeatedly, should never have fallen into government hands in the first place.”.....But the argument that the prosecutors are simply acting in the interest of law enforcement and legal principles is negated by the fact that they face actual and potential civil rights lawsuits. Chisholm is already a defendant in one such suit.......

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