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Things in this case went wrong a lot earlier. What judge signed off on a warrant for this fishing expedition? The cops openly admitted they had no idea what the
by dmitrygr 6y ago
Things in this case went wrong a lot earlier. What judge signed off on a warrant for this fishing expedition? The cops openly admitted they had no idea what they were looking for in that phone. They just wanted to look around and see if they find something incriminating.
That is NOT how search warrants are supposed to work. You are supposed to know exactly what you're looking for and where you intend to find it. You present that information to a judge to get the warrant. "We just want to rummage about" is not generally accepted.
- calebkaiser 6y ago100%. I feel like this is an area where the technical literacy gap between generations has the potential to be incredibly damaging. If a judge's signature is blessing enough for police to take whatever action, and the judge has very little understanding of computers, there's quite a bit of leeway here for disaster.
- setr 6y agoIt seems to me that technical literacy is irrelevant for this purpose -- even a judge who knows next to nothing about computers should be capable of thinking: search is search. Unless they thought of computers/phones as equivalent to a garbage can, I don't see how the mistake would be made