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M.D.Pa.: Employee had no standing of search of work computers and server

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Defendant was charged as a result of a search warrant executed on computers and a server where he worked. It is clear he had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the computer files to have standing to challenge whether the search was overbroad or became a general warrant. United States v. Nagle, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 90817 (M.D. Pa. September 1, 2010): 1. Computers The evidence presented at the suppression hearing makes it clear that during its search of the SPI and CDS premises, the Government imaged computers belonging to SPI/CDS from multiple locations throughout the 28-acre campus. (See Suppression Hr'g Tr. 80, 183.) Specifically, the computers imaged were located in the private work space of employees other than Defendant, and Defendant testified that he never used any other employee's computer...continue to full post

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