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I Should Have Paid for that Computer

By Tom Lincoln

If you are into downloading child pornography, don't use a computer you purchased with someone else's credit card. In United States v. Caymen, No. 03-30365 (9th Cir. April 21, 2005), the police were notified that Caymen had purchased a computer using someone else's credit card number. The police went to investigate, warrant in hand, and seized the computer.After seizing the laptop, the police called the business supply store where Caymen had gotten it to ask if they could look at it before returning it. The store?s owner not only consented to the police request, but he specifically requested that the police search the laptop?s hard drive because he didn?t ?want to have anything [on the computer] that shouldn?t be there.? The police looked on the laptop?s hard drive for evidence of credit card fraud, but instead found images of boys, who were around ten or twelve-years-old, exhibiting their genitals for the camera...continue to full post

Full post as published by Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers on April 21, 2005 (boomark / email).