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MNPD is pushing hard on this narrative that the Bomber's lawyer "wouldn't give them permission to search his property" as justification for doing nothing after receiving a credible tip he was building a bomb. This is bullshit for a number of reasons /1
The lawyer in question is a civil attorney who represented the Bomber in a civil real estate dispute that was over. Let that sink in. When you hire a lawyer you do so for a specific task. To represent you in a medical malpractice case, to draft a will, to get a divorce /2
That's called "scope of representation." It's literally spelled out in your contract with the lawyer (the engagement agreement). Hiring a lawyer for a specific task does not mean that lawyer represents you for every legal encounter you may have for the rest of your life. /3
Quite the opposite. They rep you for the narrow purpose for which they've been hired, and if they were to stray outside that task they would be violating all types of ethical rules. For example, if your car crash lawyer started signing business deals on your behalf without /4
your authorization, he or she would be disbarred pretty quickly. But this is EXACTLY what MNPD is claiming the Bomber's civil real estate lawyer should have done and using as an excuse for not taking the most basic follow up measures. That is beyond preposterous. /5
This would be akin to your the lawyer who represented you in your 1998 divorce giving the police consent to search your home TODAY. It's not in the scope of his representation to grant that authorization. He just can't do it whether he wanted to or not. /6
Which is why this whole narrative that "well, his lawyer wouldn't give us consent" is so nakedly dumb. It's like saying his car dealer or dentist wouldn't give you consent to search his property. So what? Go ask a judge for a warrant like you do 100's of times a month on much /7
shakier evidence from far less reliable informants. This whole silly excuse is a classic MNPD Spokesperson Don Aaron special, cooked up without a lot of forethought. /8
