I’ve been giving those ridiculous arrests by Weare Police Department some thought and I’ve come to conclude something: they are wishing, and hoping, and praying that House Bill 145 is passed by the Senate and signed into law by Governor John Lynch.Â
If that bill becomes law, which it should, Weare PD gets to drop the derisory charges that are still pending (for the third time) and claim that they had no choice as the law has changed. How convenient for Weare PD.
It’s not as if they haven’t already enough egg on their collective faces by the largest newspaper in New Hampshire subtly smacking them around with this comment:
While police later dropped the charges against Gericke and Rodriguez, police made a third wiretapping arrest following a July 10 traffic stop.
Heck, even people who dislike the Free State Project are speaking up in the comment section saying Weare PD is out-of-line.
Should HB 145 not be enacted into law, I think it is high time for some sort of preventative adjudication in the Superior Court regarding these moronic arrests. No more arresting and dropping charges just to assert authority which doesn’t even exist in the first place.
Perhaps our friend Attorney Lance Webber could comment about a possible declaratory judgement. I’d surmise that the Weare PD has produced plenty of legal standing for such thing.
