Brad Schimel: “Experience and common sense, as well as the evidence…”

“This is a serious matter for which the United States government found it necessary to seek to hold the defendant accountable. Experience and common sense, as well as the evidence presented in this case, demonstrate that the safest place to execute a search warrant. Excuse me, an arrest warrant, is within a public area of a courthouse, such as the Milwaukee County Courthouse. That is security screening to ensure that none who enter except law enforcement, are armed. That's why the federal agents sought, as law enforcement does every day, to utilize that safer environment to accomplish this arrest.” (02:28–02:45)

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