{"id":61265,"date":"2025-06-13T09:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61265"},"modified":"2025-06-13T09:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:09:34","slug":"tx3-ordered-destruction-of-livepd-raw-video-didnt-justify-dismissing-obstruction-indictment-of-sheriff-and-ada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61265","title":{"rendered":"TX3: Ordered destruction of LivePD raw video didn&#8217;t justify dismissing obstruction indictment of sheriff and ADA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Destruction of A&amp;E LivePD raw video didn\u2019t justify dismissing defendants\u2019 indictment. Defendants were an ADA and the sheriff. <a href=\"https:\/\/search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=eea8b640-90e7-4d06-9551-18f53215293f&amp;MediaID=e2b10ce8-46c6-49e6-9094-f11d44b56e47&amp;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&amp;DT=Opinion\">State v. Nassour<\/a>, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 4047 (Tex. App. \u2013 Austin June 13, 2025):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>We hold, as a matter of law, that the PPA does not preempt the prosecution of Nassour or Chody for tampering or conspiracy. State criminal prosecutions of government officers in connection with tampering with evidence do not create an obstacle, for federal preemption purposes, to the objectives of protecting those engaged in information dissemination from government intrusion set forth by Congress in the PPA. We sustain the State&#8217;s second issue, reverse the trial court&#8217;s order, and remand these causes for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. See Tex. R. App. P. 43.2(d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Destruction of A&amp;E LivePD raw video didn\u2019t justify dismissing defendants\u2019 indictment. Defendants were an ADA and the sheriff. State v. Nassour, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 4047 (Tex. App. \u2013 Austin June 13, 2025):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61266,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61265\/revisions\/61266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}