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The matter was not something that needed to be attended to at 9:45 pm on a Friday night. They could have done it during business hours. Actually, they did not e
by rayval 16y ago
The matter was not something that needed to be attended to at 9:45 pm on a Friday night. They could have done it during business hours. Actually, they did not even need to visit the premises. They could have used a subpoena.
- Locke1689 16y agoTake it up with the police, not Apple.
- andr 16y agoApple sits on the steering committee of the police unit that entered Chen's house. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1795 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1795
- cabalamat 16y agoGovernment of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations.
- pohl 16y agoWhich means what, exactly? That the steering committee forced a judge to sign a search warrant without first presenting probable cause? I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's not what steering committees do. Does it mean that no one on the steering committee should be allowed report a crime and avail themselves of the services of the force?
- GHFigs 16y agoAccusation is hard, lets go insinuating! Hey look, the author of that article used to work for Gawker!
- mbreese 16y agoThey could have used a subpoena If you're investigating a possible crime, you don't say "Hey, at your convenience could you get us your computers for us to look at?" You get a warrant and take the computers as soon as possible. You can argue whether or not the warrant should have been issued, but once it was, the rest of the raid seemed pretty standard.
- sophacles 16y agoNot really. People get arrested for old oustanding warrants all the time, search warrant backlogs are pretty common. In fact, in general it is a good idea to back off a bit. It creates a false sense of security in the suspect, allowing better effectiveness when warrants are served, due to suprise. I know there is a "but they will destroy the evidence" protest, but in most cases, by the time a warrant is available the evidence will either be long gone, or completely overlooked (the stupid factor), this is one of those cases, he had plenty of time to wipe relevant drives between the announcement of a police investigation and the warrant serving. The use of a raid force on a person who is not known to be violent and/or uncooperative is just excessive.
- wtn 16y agoThat's how you rack up overtime.
- octover 16y agoTo not play fast and loose with the facts, the warrant was signed at 7pm and Jason Chen reported getting home around 9:45pm, but the search was well underway at that point.
- dalore 16y agoNot could have, should have. He was a journalist which means he should have a subpoena.