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Search Warrants: Computers

By Baker Associates

Search warrants often play critical roles in many criminal cases, primarily because they are usually necessary in order to allow law enforcement officials to invade someone?s privacy in order to search for evidence. There are many principles that govern the legitimacy and use of search warrants, many of which have been discussed in previous blog articles. One in particular is the plain view doctrine, which basically holds thus: if the police have probable cause to search your home, they can seize any evidence of any crime that is in plain view. That is to say, if police are searching your home pursuant to a search warrant authorizing them to search for drugs and the police spot child pornography lying on the kitchen table, they can seize the pornography and arrest you for possessing it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on April 14, 2010 (boomark / email).