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Sarasota paralegal Michael Barfield, who is also president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, submitted an emergency petition for writ of mandamus to the Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court on Monday seeking “any records that BPD can release as it relates to the homicide of Tara Reilly, including, but not limited to, any portion of any probable cause affidavit or arrest warrant.” The petition claims the BPD has violated the Florida Public Records Act by not providing the documents he requested. The Herald-Tribune made the same request on Dec. 18 and also was denied. A writ of ma...

The Bradenton Police Department once believed it had enough evidence to make arrests in the murder of Tara Reilly, a 25-year-old woman found face down, naked and dead in a pond behind a local Walmart in 2000. In a document prepared for the Florida Supreme Court in 2001, Reilly’s parents alleged that BPD detectives had shown them probable cause affidavits and arrest warrants issued for Patrick Brinker, Reilly’s ex-boyfriend and father of their child, along with an unnamed accomplice, in the murder. For unknown reasons those arrest warrants were never served. Should those documents exist, ...