It's not that they thought it was fine to just search the laptop; that it was fine for them to seize the laptop, remove it from the scene, and then search at th

It's not that they thought it was fine to just search the laptop; that it was fine for them to seize the laptop, remove it from the scene, and then search at their leisure. It would be like border agents seizing a car crossing the border, towing it to another location (leaving owner behind as well), and searching it later. How that comes off as a reasonable search to anyone is beyond me.