4/5/2012: From a Josephine Woolington story in the ODE on last term’s basketball fight:
“It’s not wrong to videotape us (DPS). That’s OK,” said Carolyn McDermed, acting chief of DPS. “The cellphone was seized because it contained evidence of the crime. It was pertinent to the case.”
DPS still has Said’s cellphone, and is waiting to obtain a search warrant from Eugene Police Department to look through it.
Three weeks and they are still waiting for a warrant?
They might want to try getting the warrant from a judge instead of the EPD…
Seriously, I am pretty sure that all the need to do is call the courthouse and ask what they need to do (fill out a simple form) and then do it. She is supposed to be a police chief? Paid how much?
$111,437 + cell phone
They could at least just take a file of the video off the phone so someone isn’t left without their means of communication… this smells fishy.