Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 22, 2007
Making Motions

The AP joins the Hearst Corporation in trying to get details about a PED investigation. The AP is going after the Grimsley search warrant:

In an application filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, the AP said a sworn statement signed in May 2006 to obtain a search warrant for Grimsley's home in Arizona should be released in its entirety based on legal precedent and public interest.

When the affidavit, signed by IRS Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, was made public in June 2006, names of the players Novitzky said Grimsley accused of using performance-enhancing drugs were blacked out.

"Any privacy interests of individuals named in the affidavit are insufficient to overcome the public's right to access," the AP said in its court filing.

The AP also said that if prosecutors provided the complete affidavit to baseball steroids investigator George Mitchell, "then they should not be allowed to invoke the privacy interests of third parties as a shield to prevent disclosure to others."

I agree with this. There's nothing special about Mitchell or major league baseball. If they can know, we all can know. On the other hand, we can all just wait for the leaks. :-)


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