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A Trifecta of Fourth Amendment Issues in Sex Crime Cases

By Corey Rayburnyung

FourthAmedment.com has had three recent posts concerning search and seizure issues in kiddie porn cases.  First up was a post about whether voluntary showing of some computer images constituted consent for viewing of other images on the computer at a later time:A federal search warrant for a computer of a member of the military seized from his apartment off base on an oral search authorization was valid. Appellant had taken pictures at a party where a sexual assault was alleged to have occurred, and OSI was investigating. He voluntarily showed them pictures on his computer, but they felt that there were more. They came back and seized the computer because there was evidence on it. He was not a suspect in any crime. After the seizure, OSI figured out that they should get a written search authorization...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on June 04, 2008 (boomark / email).