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He got caught selling meth, that's probable cause for searching his phone for evidence of other crimes. For example, where did he get the meth? What were his
by SamReidHughes 7y ago
He got caught selling meth, that's probable cause for searching his phone for evidence of other crimes. For example, where did he get the meth? What were his prior locations?
> Consider one of your friends maybe a drug dealer and you don't know it. The police find records connecting you to them. Now you're under investigation, and crimes will be found if they want thento be found, and you're sucked in to a very expensive legal defence.
I have had friends who were drug dealers and I didn't know it. Somehow this didn't result in the gestapo breaking into my house, when they got busted by the police. Police have investigated crimes involving people that have friends for over a century, so I don't buy your hypothetical scenario.
- elmerfud 7y agoThey did not specify the place or the items in the warrant. That's a big deal. On an electronic device you can be very specific as to what you're looking for not an open ended everything on this nonspecific device. Please read the link I posted if you blindly trust our Justice system to always do what's right. There are counter examples to your anecdote.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoOperating by citing individual examples is dysrationalism. There is a trade-off here, with an entirely different kind of police state formed when the law can't track down organized crime because you won't even let it look at evidence rightfully in its possession.