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That sucks that that happened to you. You should be compensated, at the minimum for taking your equipment for that time. What would have happened if they found

That sucks that that happened to you. You should be compensated, at the minimum for taking your equipment for that time. What would have happened if they found something else, like downloaded movies? Are they only allowed to charge you for what they say they're looking for on the search warrant?

BLKNSLVR 2y ago
If I had a wish list, compensation would be well below "fix your processes and/or do your job better to minimise the chances of this happening to another innocent family" in the priority list. There was an extensive collection of music (I should say that fair chunk of it is legitimate in that I own the original CDs from which the electronic copies were ripped, or I actually paid for the electronic copies - hi bandcamp!) which was neither hidden nor encrypted (and quite well organised if I do say so myself), and nothing at all was mentioned about that, and it was all still present when I got my gear back. My understanding (and I have no specific actual knowledge or authority) is that, in the case of a raid, they can only charge you for crimes that are directly related to the reasons the raid was conducted in the first place. If they find evidence of other crimes it's essentially inadmissible because otherwise they wouldn't have found it, and "probable cause" (or some other concept like that) is required for the temporary suspension of rights required of a raid. I'm not sure what would happen if they discover a corpse in the process of conducting a raid for growing weed though. Not an exception, but to clarify the distinction, a while back a friend of mine had cause to request the police to attend his property (drunk person refusing to leave the house, or something along those lines) and whilst in his house the police noticed a couple of illegal firearms. Since the police were invited in, and the firearms were in plain sight, he was booked for possession of illegal firearms. I think the primary difference is the invitiation versus 'temporary suspension of rights'. In regards to "in plain sight", if law enforcement come to your door, make sure that they can't see whatever illegal shit you may have in your house from their position (since you haven't invited them in, but they're allowed to be on your doorstep and therefore look through the open door). This is likely true from any 'public' vantage point, such as through any of your windows.

BLKNSLVR 2y ago

If I had a wish list, compensation would be well below "fix your processes and/or do your job better to minimise the chances of this happening to another innocent family" in the priority list. There was an extensive collection of music (I should say that fair chunk of it is legitimate in that I own the original CDs from which the electronic copies were ripped, or I actually paid for the electronic copies - hi bandcamp!) which was neither hidden nor encrypted (and quite well organised if I do say so myself), and nothing at all was mentioned about that, and it was all still present when I got my gear back. My understanding (and I have no specific actual knowledge or authority) is that, in the case of a raid, they can only charge you for crimes that are directly related to the reasons the raid was conducted in the first place. If they find evidence of other crimes it's essentially inadmissible because otherwise they wouldn't have found it, and "probable cause" (or some other concept like that) is required for the temporary suspension of rights required of a raid. I'm not sure what would happen if they discover a corpse in the process of conducting a raid for growing weed though. Not an exception, but to clarify the distinction, a while back a friend of mine had cause to request the police to attend his property (drunk person refusing to leave the house, or something along those lines) and whilst in his house the police noticed a couple of illegal firearms. Since the police were invited in, and the firearms were in plain sight, he was booked for possession of illegal firearms. I think the primary difference is the invitiation versus 'temporary suspension of rights'. In regards to "in plain sight", if law enforcement come to your door, make sure that they can't see whatever illegal shit you may have in your house from their position (since you haven't invited them in, but they're allowed to be on your doorstep and therefore look through the open door). This is likely true from any 'public' vantage point, such as through any of your windows.