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MSNBC - Warrant for Kansas newspaper raid withdrawn due to 'insufficient evidence' [1]

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Date: 2023-08-19  

Just getting this story out there. I have to leave very soon.

There’s some serious shenanigans going on here. Sounds like a personal vendetta?

The Magistrate Judge who approved raid over “local restaurateur’s drunken-driving record” has history of DUI arrests herself.

The Kansas magistrate judge who authorized a police raid of the Marion County Record newsroom over its probe into a local restaurateur’s drunken-driving record has her own hidden history of driving under the influence. Judge Laura Viar, who was appointed on Jan. 1 to fill a vacant 8th Judicial District magistrate seat, was arrested at least twice for DUI in two different Kansas counties in 2012, a Wichita Eagle investigation found. She was the lead prosecutor for Morris County at the time. Viar’s DUI history could face scrutiny because the warrant she approved for the controversial raid came in response to the Marion County Record digging into the DUI history of restaurant owner Kari Newell. The Viar-authorized raid came after Newell complained about the newspaper’s investigation into her criminal background.

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