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Newsbrief:
Narc
Hates
Free
Publicity
9/24/04
DRCNet reported last month
on the web site of Leon Carmichael (http://www.carmichaelcase.com),
an Alabama man facing federal marijuana and money
laundering
charges, who posted the names and photographs of a DEA agent and two
informants
on the Internet in what his attorney called an effort to gain
information for
his defense. While law enforcement
screamed in outrage and federal prosecutors tried to force the site to
shut
down, federal courts have twice upheld Carmichael's right to post that information.
(See https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/349/pictures.shtml
and https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/351/names.shtml for
background
information.)
Now, the DEA agent
identified by the web site, Raymond David DeJohn, has gone to federal
court
seeking an order to have his photos removed, the Montgomery Advertiser
reported. He is claiming that the photos
were illegally obtained and that they pose a personal and professional
danger
to him.
According to the
Advertiser, which has published several articles on the affair, the
photos of
DeJohn that appeared on the Carmichael web site were obtained from a Montgomery police lieutenant by a former police officer
now
working as an investigator for Carmichael. Montgomery
Police Lt. George Salem was fingered as the culprit and has since
retired for "health
reasons."
"The government
cannot introduce illegally obtained evidence in a criminal proceeding. Why then can the defendant utilize an
illegally obtained photo to seek evidence in his defense?" DeJohn asked
in
a motion presented Monday.
An attorney for Salem scoffed at DeJohn's argument that posting
his photos
on the web endangered him. Julian
McPhillips showed the Advertiser a photo of DeJohn on a web site for US
Attorney Laura Canary, and his name is also mentioned as a law
enforcement
officer elsewhere on the same web site. "This
web site predates Mr. Carmichael's site," McPhillips said, adding that
if
there was a danger of exposing DeJohn's occupation, the first site was
as
culpable as Carmichael's. "What's
he blowing smoke over?" McPhillips said of DeJohn.
No date has been set for a
hearing on DeJohn's motion. Meanwhile, Carmichael faces a November trial date for what he
insists was a frame-up by the
informants and DEA agent DeJohn.
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Issue #355, 9/24/04
Editorial: The Moral Choice is Clear |
With New Sentencing Legislation Pending in Congress, Church Leaders Urge an End to Mandatory Minimums |
Patients, Doctors, Supporters Head to Washington to Demand Rescheduling of Marijuana as a Medicine |
For Second Year, John W. Perry Fund Helps Students with Drug Convictions Afford College |
DRCNet Interview: Michael Badnarik, Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate |
DRCNet Book Review: "Patients in The Crossfire: Casualties in The War On Medical Marijuana," by Americans For Safe Access |
Action Alert: Still Time to Contact Judiciary Committee Members About HEA Drug Provision |
Newsbrief: Schwarzenegger Signs Syringe Access Bill, Vetoes NEP Bill |
Newsbrief: Schwarzenegger Vetoes Bill Barring High School Drug Testing |
Newsbrief: New Jersey Needle Exchange Bill on Fast Track, Passes First Hurdle |
Newsbrief: Former Child Actor Macauley Culkin Busted for Drugs in All-Too-Typical Cave-In to Police Search Request |
Newsbrief: Montel Williams Show Brings Medical Marijuana Issue to the Masses |
Newsbrief: Bush Warns of Canada Drug Threat, Whistles Past Afghan Opium Fields |
Newsbrief: Guatemala Seeks More Anti-Drug Money from United States |
Newsbrief: Decades of Colombian Drug War Brings... New, More Efficient Drug Organizations |
Newsbrief: Narc Hates Free Publicity |
Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cops Story |
Newsbrief: British Drug Policy Think Tank Says Government Abandoned Planned Heroin Maintenance Expansion |
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