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Hi, I am confused with this sentence. Does it mean that Deputy Pikett devised a dog trick "for" producing search warrants? Or did he do that "by" producing search warrants?

  • Hi, I am confused with this sentence.
  • Does it mean that Deputy Pikett devised a dog trick "for" producing search warrants?
  • Or did he do that "by" producing search warrants?
  • Deputy Pikett, the lawyer said, “devised an unreliable dog trick to justify local police agencies’ suspicions’’ for producing search warrants and arrests.
  • I take it to mean that the purpose of the trick was to assist in producing search warrants and arrests.
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Hi,

I am confused with this sentence. Does it mean that Deputy Pikett devised a dog trick "for" producing search warrants? Or did he do that "by" producing search warrants?

Deputy Pikett, the lawyer said, “devised an unreliable dog trick to justify local police agencies’ suspicions’’ for producing search warrants and arrests.

I take it to mean that the purpose of the tri

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