I was corresponding w/ a girl through classmates.com - she got mad on some stuff I said, I kept emailing & then come to find out she went down to the police dept. & guess she had a friend down there, he in terms comes to my home un-announced, to find out if I was corresponding or not, he then was classifying me as a bad criminal, threatening to take me to jail etc. I cooperated with him. The next thing I know he evidently got some kind of warrant to go to my job and get my stuff off my work computer ! I could not believe it. The girl told him it was threatening emails and she was scared for her life etc. I am not a bad person. So the DA has the stuff from my work computer & there was never any threatening emails to begin with, just casual emails. Should I press charges for slander & libel and also for ruining my professional reputation ?
Please advise ? Thank U !

I'm confused. Someone entered your job premises and stole data from your PC or data stored on CD?

What did she do with the material and why were you fired?

If her lies caused you to be fired and you can prove she lied, then you have a case against her.

First, please do not use e-mail or PMs to ask follow-up questions. I generally just ignore them.

But something sounds weird here. You claim someone from the DA's office came to your workplace and searched your work area and took things. Either they had a warrant or it was theft. If they had a warrant then you could challenge the warrant. If anything confiscated during this search was given to someone outside the DA's office then the DA has some trouble on his hands.

But you NEED to get an attorney. Someone who will fight the warrant and determine your best course of action.

I also am confused by this question.

I think we need more information. How were the CD's stolen etc.

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Originally Posted by pinkflowers

I was corresponding w/ a girl through classmates.com - she got mad on some stuff I said, I kept emailing & then come to find out she went down to the police dept. & guess she had a friend down there, he in terms comes to my home un-announced, to find out if I was corresponding or not, he then was classifying me as a bad criminal, threatening to take me to jail etc., I cooperated with him. The next thing I know he evidently got some kind of warrant to go to my job and get my stuff off of my work computer ! I could not believe it. the girl told him it was threatening emails and she was scared for her life etc., I am not a bad person. So the DA has the stuff from my work computer & there was never any threatening emails to begin with, just casual emails. Should I press charges for slander & libel and also for ruining my professional reputation ?
Please advise ? Thank U !

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CD'S were not stolen, my hard-drive I guess you call it, was taken by the DA's office, obviously they obtained a warrant to get it, my company got mad and threw me out the door ! No job, no money,nothing all over some non-sense. My company did not even fully investigate it...

Okay, I'm still confused. What was on the hard-drive that would be considered evidence by the DA's office? Obviously there was something suspicious otherwise they wouldn't have gotten a warrant. I don't think you're telling us the whole story.

If there was nothing on it, you can sue the girl. ( assuming she has any money) well you can sue her if she is poor but will not get anything.

Also you may be able to sue your place of employment if you are cleared of all charges, since they fired you without cause, merely being a suspect, they can suspend you, but not fire you normally

But at this point, there was enough evidence for them to get a warrant.
Your main and first mistake was talking with the officer and trying to help him. YOU NEVER< EVER< NEVER talk to the police without an attorney,
Normally most people can talk thierself into trouble.

And before that, you keep emailing and emailing someone who got mad at you, ( can anyone say cyber stalking? )

You aren't listening to us. There is something missing here that you aren't telling us. Generally, to obtain a warrant, the DA has to provide proof of a crime AND proof that you were connected to that crime. That's what you aren't telling us. And I have to wonder why?

I'm wondering what exactly your emails said. Just because you believe they were innocent and casual doesn't mean others will perceive them that way. There must have been something serious if the police were able to obtain a warrant. I agree with the others, what aren't you telling us?

Yes I am wondering about what the emails said, but to their defense, police in many areas can get a warrant for almost anything, there is no hearing normally for a warrant, all the police officer does is fill out a warrant application in which he lists the reasons for the warrant, it only has to show there is a possible crime, thre is no beyond doubt, merely suspision of a crime And the informant, does not have to be named by named most of the time.

Fr_chuck does make a good point but I'm still finding it a little hard to believe that someone would really go through all of this trouble and get the police and DA to go along with it if it were really nothing. I still feel like there's something we're not being told. Because that's an awful lot just over an offensive email. If I went to any of the officers I know and said someone had sent me an offense email they'd say "and? what do you want me to do about it?" not "well, let's get a search warrant and bring the DA into it and just really make their life hell." and I live in a tiny town were half the department comes out for a speeding ticket and the whole department for a fender bender. Lol I don't know, something still isn't adding up for me

Justcurious, I have to agree, I don't think we're getting the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help all of us and tell us the truth OP.

OK, sorry to be random and off topic, but what does OP stand for? I know you're referring to the person asking the question but I can't figure out what the letters stand for. Lol

OP=Original Post/Poster
It can refer to either depending on context.

While search warrants can be fairly easily obtained, the judge signing the warrant is going to want some assurance from the DA that a crime took place and there is reasonable supposition that the object of the warrant was involved.

Until we know WHY the warrant was issued we really can't help further.

I find it interesting that the OP's last post in this thread was 3 days ago (even though she was logged in yesterday). Once we tried to find out EXACTLY why the DA was able to get a warrant she clammed up. I guess that answers the question about whether she should press charges.

Her friend is the one who works for the DA's office, she did it out of pure mean-ness !
She wanted to trace where the emails were coming from ! Now she is posting on classmates.com - un-necessary mess ! I called the DA's office to report her non-sense that she is posting, and nothing was done ! Again, there were NO threatening bad emails !
She should be punished, she has too much time on her hands ! And + she ruined my professional business reputation !

You still haven't answered the question. For the DA's office to obtain a warrant they had to list some crime and why you were suspected of that crime. That's what you need to tell us before we can help you.

As it stands now, a legally obtained warrant was used to search your computer. You have no case, unless you can prove that warrant was obtained unfairly.

The old classmate is the one who got the warrant, I do not even know exactly what she told them, the warrant was obtained extremely unfair. I did nothing wrong, I said nothing bad or threatening, I guarantee it is a family friend who worked for her...
Since her husband is a lawyer they probably have lots of contacts.
Now I have no job, 2 small children to support and now what..

You are not paying attention. Nor are you answering our question. A civilian CANNOT get a warrant. Only someone in the DA's or Prosecutors office can get a warrant. The Police can't even get a warrant. A warrant has to be signed by a judge. A judge needs to be convinced that a crime took place and the warrant will help uncover evidence about that crime.

You are entitled to see a copy of that warrant. It has to detail what crime took place. If you can't or won't answer that key question, we can't help you.

Please do not use e-mails or PMs to ask questions I will not respond to them. We have told you several times what we need to know and you have not given us that info. If the DA's office acted impoperly, you have a case against them. But I haven't a clue whether they did or not, because you can't answer the key questions.

If you won't tell us the truth then hire an attorney.