What the Hell Just Happened on MSNBC and CNN?

[TorchTheWitch]

83. breaching the lease is immaterial

And I doubt the lease said anything about illegal items on the premises. No lease I ever had required that I not have specific illegal items on the premises... that's a criminal matter having nothing to do with the lease. However, even if it WAS a breach of the lease it doesn't forfeit the rights of the tenants' next of kin who upon the death of the tenants inherited all their belongings.

Every state has a specific process concerning the removal of a tenant and the removal of the tenant's property from the premises once the specified time limit for the tenant to remove their items has expired. None of them allow the landlord access to the property immediately nor to the tenant's belongings in the premises. There is no question that the landlord allowing access to the media to not only the premises but the tenants' personal items broke the law, and it doesn't MATTER that they were heinous criminals and deceased.

Part of what is so outrageous about what the media did is that they should have known that they themselves were breaking the law by illegally entering the premises as well as illegally riffling through the belongings of the deceased tenants that upon their demise then immediately became the property of their next of kin, and they absolutely should have known they were contaminating a crime scene that may have yielded much information about the killers, why they committed such an atrocity and most importantly whether or not anyone else had any involvement... they didn't acquire the bomb materials without help nor did they acquire the weapons and ammo without other involvement. Now anything in that apartment that could have been used by prosecutors against any others that may have committed crimes in helping this barbarous couple to achieve their ends might not be admissible.

As for why the police didn't immediately secure the apartment and have officers standing guard, I can give them a pass on that since at the time many departments were in the throws of hunting down a suspected third killer, disposing safely of bombs, investigation and ensuring the safety of the community. I can forgive them this lapse particularly since the REASON it is necessary for the police to rope off and guard a crime scene that by law should have ALREADY been locked up and secure is because of the media and others wanting access for their own selfish reasons and to hell with contamination of a crime scene or the fact that those property items inside that dwelling was the legal property of someone. And SHAME on the media after what they did framing this outrageous incident THEY caused as the bigger fault laying with the police - who were up to their eyeballs over a mass murder incident - for not roping off the crime scene and posting guard on a property that by law should have been locked and secure from anyone - including the owner of the premises - in the first place.