ListenJudge: Cities Church protest search warrant applications didn’t meet basic legal standards
Documents unsealed Tuesday in federal court show a federal judge pushing back forcefully on investigators involved in the cases of 38 people charged for a protest at a St. Paul church this winter.
U.S. Magistrate Judge John Docherty denied requests in February for five separate search warrants, including for YouTube information of independent journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon. The judge said the search warrant requests didn’t meet basic legal standards. In late March, prosecutors withdrew the search warrant requests. Docherty ordered the search warrants and his order denying them unsealed late last week…