{"id":1085,"date":"2019-09-12T18:06:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?page_id=1085"},"modified":"2019-09-12T18:06:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T18:06:40","slug":"on-day-2-of-bishop-hearing-lawyers-spar-over-search-warrants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/on-day-2-of-bishop-hearing-lawyers-spar-over-search-warrants\/","title":{"rendered":"On Day 2 of Bishop hearing, lawyers spar over search warrants"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Ben Leonard, Erin Williams and Swathi Ramprasad\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
The second day of a hearing in the case of Alexander Bishop, a 17-year-old boy accused of killing his father with a dog leash, was a battle over search warrants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Prosecutors and Bishop\u2019s attorney sparred over the warrants and the evidence they provided, accusing each other of “fishing expeditions.” <\/span><\/p>\n
Allyn Sharp, Bishop\u2019s attorney, said some evidence should be suppressed because of misconduct by the lead investigator, Tony Huelsman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
But prosecutor Beth Hopkins Thomas said there was no proof Huelsman was intentionally misleading when he sought the warrants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cThe claims here are incredibly opaque and getting into semantics instead of getting into substantive material issues,\u201d Hopkins Thomas said of Sharp\u2019s arguments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Late in the day, Sharp noted that Huelsman had executed about 22 search warrants and asked him to explain what criminal evidence he’d uncovered.<\/span><\/p>\n
Hopkins Thomas was quick to object.<\/span><\/p>\n
“Your honor, it’s a fishing expedition,” Hopkins Thomas said. “She is trying to get our lead investigator to lay out his entire testimony before the trial.”<\/p>\n