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Convicted Peeper Sues Cops for Return of Porn Stash
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - A man recently released from jail after being
convicted of secretly videotaping a woman and a teenage girl has sued a
Marin County police department for the return of a massive porn collection
taken during the investigation.
Dennis Saunders, 59, filed suit against San Rafael police in Marin County
Superior Court after the department refused to give back some 500
pornographic movies and 250 magazines his lawyer described as unrelated to
the peeping case.
"There's absolutely no legal foundation for them withholding perfectly legal
adult-oriented material," Tiburon attorney Jon Rankin said.
The video collection alone was likely worth at least $10,000, Rankin said.
Saunders, of Healdsburg, was arrested in 2002 and charged with taping the
women in their homes at a San Rafael apartment complex where he worked. He
was released last month.
A lawyer representing the city said authorities wanted direction from a
judge on whether it would be "lawful or appropriate" to return the material
to Saunders, who has a history of peeping-related arrests dating back to
1979,
"If the court orders us to give it back to him, we will give it back to
him," city lawyer Thomas Bertrand said.
Convicted Peeper Sues Cops for Return of Porn Stash
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - A man recently released from jail after being
convicted of secretly videotaping a woman and a teenage girl has sued a
Marin County police department for the return of a massive porn collection
taken during the investigation.
Dennis Saunders, 59, filed suit against San Rafael police in Marin County
Superior Court after the department refused to give back some 500
pornographic movies and 250 magazines his lawyer described as unrelated to
the peeping case.
"There's absolutely no legal foundation for them withholding perfectly legal
adult-oriented material," Tiburon attorney Jon Rankin said.
The video collection alone was likely worth at least $10,000, Rankin said.
Saunders, of Healdsburg, was arrested in 2002 and charged with taping the
women in their homes at a San Rafael apartment complex where he worked. He
was released last month.
A lawyer representing the city said authorities wanted direction from a
judge on whether it would be "lawful or appropriate" to return the material
to Saunders, who has a history of peeping-related arrests dating back to
1979,
"If the court orders us to give it back to him, we will give it back to
him," city lawyer Thomas Bertrand said.