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They 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 loo
by mbreese 17y ago
They 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 17y 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.