Ex parte State of Alabama [Petition for Writ of Mandamus], No. 1120498 (Ala. Feb. 15, 2013).
An investigator with the Alabama attorney general’s office sought a search warrant for a facility where allegedly illegal gambling devices were located. The district court judge declined to issue the warrant because the sheriff of the county had certified the machines to be legal, so there was conflict between enforcers. The district court stated that…