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Colorado Supreme Court protects right to privacy!

post #1 of 8
4/9/02 at 3:21pm
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Thornton police attempted to inspect the sales records of a local bookstore in order to ascertain whether suspects had purchased books on the manufacture of methamphetamines.

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled against the police.

<a href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_1076895,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_1076895,00.html</a>
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post #2 of 8
4/9/02 at 9:55pm
I have no problem with this decision. Ultimately it's the right decision constitutionally.

But witness this paragraph:
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Officers had found an empty package from the bookstore outside a mobile home housing a meth lab. Inside, they discovered two how-to books, Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Psychedelic and Amphetamine Manufacture by Uncle Fester and The Construction and Operation of Clandestine Drug Laboratories by Jack B. Nimble.
Doesn't the publication and even perhaps sale of such material violate any conspiracy to commit whatever laws?
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post #3 of 8
4/10/02 at 3:25am
Novelty purposes only.
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post #4 of 8
4/10/02 at 12:04pm
Besides, the suspect was neither publishing nor selling these books, right?
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post #5 of 8
4/11/02 at 12:06am
There just seems to be something dreadfully wrong with publishing and selling something whose intended purpose is to violate every States' narcotics laws.
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post #6 of 8
4/11/02 at 12:20am
The 1st Amendment seems to disagree with you.
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post #7 of 8
4/11/02 at 12:25am
So is there a line or does anything go(as far as the First Amendment is concerned)?

C'mon, you know it's wrong to conspire to commit a felony.
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post #8 of 8
4/11/02 at 12:27am
Yeah but publishing a book isn't conspiring to commit a crime. I'd say it falls under freedom of press, easy.
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