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How well were the participants informed about how warrants would be used to access their information?
by carbocation 7y ago
How well were the participants informed about how warrants would be used to access their information?
- ebg13 7y agoThe state has decided that you don't need to be informed in advance that a warrant will let them search through your things. The whole point of a warrant is that it lets them search. "I didn't know they could look inside my bag" isn't a legal defense.
- carbocation 7y agoYou're talking about malum prohibitum and I'm talking about malum in se.
- ebg13 7y agoI don't understand. Are you saying that it's wrong for the state to grant search warrants in the course of investigating murders? Because it seems to me that the alternative is that then all one needs to do to never be convicted of a crime is to just not consent to being investigated. So which is the lesser problem, invading privacy with a warrant or never being able to prosecute any crimes?
- carbocation 7y agoAre you replying with questions that imply I said something that I never said? Edit: At the time of my reply, the prior post read (in its entirety): I don't understand. Are you saying that it's wrong for the state to grant search warrants in the course of investigating murders? I won't be replying to further posts in this thread.
- jobigoud 7y agoHis first question was "even with a warrant?" Which you replied to with another question. As I see it he's asking you to clarify your initial statement. No need to get all defensive.
- Dylan16807 7y agoThis isn't about a defense. It's about looking through the bags of tens of thousands of people with absolutely zero evidence pointing toward those bags or their owners. If there was a type of bag that made the contents subject to dragnet warrants, it would definitely be wrong to sell those bags without informed consent.