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Monday, December 16, 2013

Local Man Facing Prosecution Based on Satellite Photos




Editor's Note:  John Leyzorek, local libertarian thorn-in-the flesh, has been charged by DOH with operating a salvage yard without a license.  

John has a large farm one mile off the highway well out of the sight of all neighbors.  He is a locally renown iron craftsman who restores old farm machinery etc to working condition.  

He probably has the oldest working tractor in the county which he uses in parades for the Historical Society floats.  He uses the old "salvage" to return long-deceased machines to like.

John occasionally sets up a demo blacksmith at such events as Pioneer Days.

Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), was a landmark case in criminal procedure, in which the United States Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures," may not be used in state law criminal prosecutions in state courts, as well, as had previously been the law, as in federal criminal law prosecutions in federal courts.  

The DOH obtained a probable cause warrant for John's arrest based on an aerial map from Bing, the Internet Search Engine.  John is challenging the citation for failure to provide adequate probable cause.

He has just received word that his hearing on the citation has been postponed until Jan. 12.  It appears that someone in the court system is finally reading the motions he has filed.

This case has potential to make a big splash in the court world.  John has asked for a jury to hear his case.


One man's junk is another man's treasure!


2 comments:

  1. Geez, what is this world coming to when a highway department can tell a guy what he can and cannot do with his own stuff on his own land justified with "evidence" from outer space?

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  2. but there is no problemo with jacob meck in greenbank.........HE MEETS NONE OF THE RULES!!!!!!!!!

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