There is no law stating the government cant repair a broken device that was seized as evidence, while having a lapsed search warrant. There is a law against se

There is no law stating the government cant repair a broken device that was seized as evidence, while having a lapsed search warrant. There is a law against searching a device without a valid warrant. The judge ruled that repairing a device seized as evidence is not a search. I'm failing to see what the government did, that was against any law or policy.