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AG's office seizes Rensselaer DA's emails

Apr 14, 2017 12:01 am
Brendan J. Lyons reports in The Albany Times Union that a month after investigators with the state attorney general's office seized the Rensselaer County District Attorney's cell phone, they now have taken his email records. Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove is being investigated for his handling of a fatal police shooting last year. "We do not know anything about a search warrant and we are confident that there is nothing in his emails which would support allegations of inappropriate let alone criminal activity," John W. Bailey, Abelove's attorney, said. "We are confident that a neutral and impartial judge would tailor a very specific warrant targeting very specific emails." Abelove did not call two witnesses to a grand jury that would have testified that they did not believe the Troy police officer was in imminent danger when he opened fire and killed Edson Thevenin. Brendan J. Lyons reports in The Albany Times Union