Todd Tiahrt: “Let us go over the facts of the case and then you can make a judgment yourself. Early in the morning on April 21st, I…”

“Let us go over the facts of the case and then you can make a judgment yourself. Early in the morning on April 21st, I assume this is 1995, Officer Richard Carroll sat in his unmarked car staking out a street on Washington Heights known as a prime location for drug dealers. At 5:00 a.m., it was early in the morning, he observed a double-parked rental car with Michigan plates. Four men walked up to the car without speaking to the driver. They put two black duffle bags into the trunk of this car. When they spotted the officer, they all ran off in different directions. Officer Carroll then pulled over the driver, Carol Bayless, again, searched the car, finding the cocaine and the heroin with a street value of at least $4 million. Subsequently, there was a videotaped confession where she said, yes, she knew what she was doing. She has done this 20 times before. It goes back to most people would probably consider running from the police some type of reason for suspicion. I think that is the way it is viewed in Wichita, KS, and I am sure it is probably viewed that same way in Arizona. I think it is just cause, and it probably shows why we have lost some faith in our judicial system when we have liberal judges turning loose criminals, confessed criminals, on what has been termed a technicality, or his term was, not enough reasonable suspicion to make this arrest. It is, I think, a poor excuse for why we are having problems turning criminals loose.”