Scott Walker's John Doe Case Stopped AGAIN !!! - At Least They Can't Destroy The Evidence... I Think [View all]

[WillyT]

U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa issued the decision less than a day after the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago stayed an earlier ruling ending the secret "John Doe" investigation.

The appeals court said Randa erred in not first deciding whether the emergency appeal — in which prosecutors argued they had sovereign immunity from being sued in their official capacity — was frivolous.

In his ruling Thursday, Randa wrote that he was "absolutely convinced that the defendants' attempt to appeal this issue is a frivolous effort to deprive the court of its jurisdiction to enter an injunction."

And...

That ruling also ordered the prosecutors to return all of the evidence collected and to permanently destroy all copies of it. The court of appeals Wednesday overruled Randa on that portion of his order, which Randa acknowledged in his latest decision Thursday.

"Obviously, the defendants are not required to comply with the 'return-and-destroy' aspect of the Court's injunction, as explained in the Seventh Circuit's order," Randa wrote

And...

"The Seventh Circuit identified a technical oversight, and Judge Randa's revised injunction order corrects it," Rivkin said in a statement. "We are confident that this injunction will remain in place because, as Judge Randa found, the John Doe probe is an abuse of government power to target private citizens for exercising their free speech rights."

Check back for further details as this story develops.

From: http://journaltimes.com/news/local/state-and-regional/2c81e982-bc1f-59f0-b1b4-0350591eb6aa.html