So, the headline quote is from: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/hennepin-county-attorney-mary-moriarty-demands-evidence-in-2-shootings-from-federal-authorities/ar-AA1WBJH2
See, also,
Minnesota prosecutors are demanding that federal officials share evidence in the killing of Alex Pretti and the shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced she issued the “Touhy” demands, which she compared to subpoenas in state court, during a news conference on Wednesday.
The demands, filed with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, come on the heels of the FBI formally notifying the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension that it would not share evidence into the Pretti killing with local investigators.
“Hiding evidence and obstructing our investigation is unacceptable and indicates a total lack of confidence in their agents’ actions,” Moriarty said.
Moriarty said they gave the federal government until March 3 to meet their demands for information, including the names of the federal agents involved; videos and photographs recorded by federal agents; statements by federal agents; medical records and physical evidence, including firearms, cartridge casings and uniforms.
“We are prepared to take further legal action should the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice fail to meet our deadline and continue to obstruct our investigations,” Moriarty said.
Moriarty’s office has already issued a demand for evidence in the killing of Minneapolis resident Renee Good by an ICE officer but has not received anything from federal officials despite giving them a deadline of Feb. 17.
Emails to the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security were not immediately returned.
The BCA has historically investigated shootings by law enforcement officials but has been blocked from participating in the investigations of federal immigration agents killing Pretti and Good, both U.S. citizens, and shooting a Venezuelan national in the leg, in three separate January incidents in Minneapolis during “Operation Metro Surge.”
The lack of cooperation from the feds hinders local prosecutors in weighing whether criminal charges against the agents are warranted, leading Moriarty and Ellison to begin collecting evidence themselves with the BCA.
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They, the locals, have the published video evidence, both murders, and available experts to go frame by frame to a jury. They also have put out a public request for witnesses and any publicly held additional evidence, so a good guess is they know the individuals to prosecute, and could without federal involvement get convictions.
Things like Bovino's emails, that would be nice to get, but are not essential. The video publishing has already convinced Congress critters and the general public that the administration lied like a rug and failed to get away with it, because of the video proof of big-time lying. Crabgrass is unaware of online copies of any specific local Touhy request papers.
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Touhy -
Readers can do search = Touhy demands requests
Crabgrass did that search, and the initial returned item explains things: https://www.thefederalcriminalattorneys.com/touhy-request
Credit Eisner Gorin LLP - https://www.thefederalcriminalattorneys.com/home
for putting online a reasonably clear and detailed explanation, which speaks for itself.
From that .../touhy-request link, above, you can gain as much knowledge as Crabgrass has about such a request being the chosen method at law to blast stuff from a federal agency, such as DHS and/or DOJ. Subpoena power is superceded by a body of law on Tohey requests, and as noted in excerpting, Moriority has been stiffed on the Good murder, and will have to litigate to get federally withheld evidence, so it is likely her office will be stiffed too on the Pretti murder.
Your federal government. Trump's minions. I sure as fuck had no roll in putting that bunch of bastards into power, I bit the bullet and voted Harris, but they now hold the power and act as bullshit as they do. Elections are coming soon.
FURTHER:There is an LII entry: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/39/230.10
That item is for how the Postal Office handles requests for info -- § 230.10 Demands for records or testimony. It is representative enough to show that each agency may have a CFR posting of procedural and substantive Rules it has promulgated - CFR = Code of Federal Regulations, for those not already aware of the abbreviation.
Readers should be able to find online similar DOJ and DHS stuff via reasonable search skills. Crabgrass did not take that further step of slogging through the CFR, where the LII site is where it would have been done.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text is where search online may begin, for those caring enough to pursue things. Lawyers get paid good money to know and search all that stuff. Helpful, https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=3%2C24&q=touhy%20requests
That last link is from search of Google Scholar, case law, federal courts . . .