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Looks like the Florida judges are all too eager to help him keep footage of his little Patriot under wraps.
But the arguments are laughably bad!
A lower state court has already suppressed the videotape from the January 2019 encounters between Kraft, now 79, and a masseuse at the Orchids of Asia spa in Jupiter, Fla., ruling in part the police did not do enough as legally required to minimize the taping of noncriminal activity. The police were investigating a series of spas for allegedly offering sex acts, and secretly installed cameras in the massage rooms.
“Running across the state’s bid for reversal in all these cases is the specter of a police state,” said Derek Shaffer of Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan, Kraft’s lawyer. “One where police could inject the most invasive forms of surveillance into the most sensitive and private of settings to investigate the most mundane offenses. Appellants stand together to defend the constitutional and judicial checks that have stood in the way of that. And that should continue to stand in the way of that in Florida, just as they do elsewhere in the country.”
And the three-judge panel on Tuesday appeared receptive to that argument, at times all but suggesting lines of argument to the lawyers. Judge Melanie May even hinted that evidence from the police stopping Kraft’s car leaving the parking lot of the spa could be suppressed, which has not been requested by the Patriots owner.
“Can I just ask you one quick question: Was there any challenge to the stop of your client?” she asked Shaffer toward the end of the roughly 90-minute hearing. “Because I note in the affidavit apparently all the patrons that left committed traffic violations, but in your client’s case, he was simply stopped leaving.”
Shaffer readily agreed evidence generated by the stop should be suppressed.
Robert Kraft's counsel warns of 'police state' if videotape...
But the arguments are laughably bad!
A lower state court has already suppressed the videotape from the January 2019 encounters between Kraft, now 79, and a masseuse at the Orchids of Asia spa in Jupiter, Fla., ruling in part the police did not do enough as legally required to minimize the taping of noncriminal activity. The police were investigating a series of spas for allegedly offering sex acts, and secretly installed cameras in the massage rooms.
“Running across the state’s bid for reversal in all these cases is the specter of a police state,” said Derek Shaffer of Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan, Kraft’s lawyer. “One where police could inject the most invasive forms of surveillance into the most sensitive and private of settings to investigate the most mundane offenses. Appellants stand together to defend the constitutional and judicial checks that have stood in the way of that. And that should continue to stand in the way of that in Florida, just as they do elsewhere in the country.”
And the three-judge panel on Tuesday appeared receptive to that argument, at times all but suggesting lines of argument to the lawyers. Judge Melanie May even hinted that evidence from the police stopping Kraft’s car leaving the parking lot of the spa could be suppressed, which has not been requested by the Patriots owner.
“Can I just ask you one quick question: Was there any challenge to the stop of your client?” she asked Shaffer toward the end of the roughly 90-minute hearing. “Because I note in the affidavit apparently all the patrons that left committed traffic violations, but in your client’s case, he was simply stopped leaving.”
Shaffer readily agreed evidence generated by the stop should be suppressed.
Robert Kraft's counsel warns of 'police state' if videotape...
