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> the police can simply hire anyone who is not a LEO to conduct a warrantless search on their behalf. It's clearly illegal for private individual A to search t

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > It's clearly illegal for private individual A to search the computer of private individual B without B's consent though So what? If such illegally gained evidence is not excluded (and private illegality doesn't trigger the exclusionary rule), and the public prosecuting authority (who benefits from the illegality, as it serves the case they want to prosecute) declines to prosecute the illegality, it's at worst, for the perpetrator, a matter of civil tort liability.