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Chief Gideon Cody's troubles are just beginning.
”All electronic devices seized by police will be returned to the Marion County Record, said Bernie Rhodes, a Kansas City-based attorney for the Record who also represents The Star.
"'We have stopped the hemorrhaging,' Rhodes told The Star. 'But it does nothing about taking care of the damage that has already occurred from the violation of the First Amendment in the first place.'"
"Marion County [Prosecutor] Joel Ensey said he concluded that 'insufficient evidence' existed to establish a 'legally sufficient nexus between this alleged crime and the places searched and the items seized.'"
https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article278300178.html
Oh Marion County Magistrate Judge Laura Viar, Ask not for whom the bell tolls.
“The Kansas magistrate judge who authorized a police raid of the Marion County Record newsroom over its probe into a local restaurateur’s drunken-driving record has her own hidden history of driving under the influence.”
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article278237263.html
The front page of the Kansas City Star site is quite something today. Everything above the fold is a nightmare for the dime store stormtroopers in Marion County.
This paragraph from the story about Magistrate Judge Laura Viar is … something. While she was serving as prosecutor for Morris County, Kansas:
“She was not supposed to be driving because her driver’s license was suspended in the Coffey County case, court records show. She reportedly drove off-road and crashed into a school building next to Council Grove’s football field while driving then-8th District Magistrate Judge Thomas Ball’s vehicle.”