S.D.Ga.: Seizure of all emails since inception of account shown justified

A warrant seeking emails from the opening of the account was justified by the nature of the probable cause alleged and the time period at issue. Also, even if the officer went too far, the good faith exception would have to be applied because exclusion here would serve no purpose. United States v. Roper, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 48608 (S.D. Ga. Mar. 1, 2018):

A warrant seeking emails from the inception of an account created to further a criminal scheme is reasonable and consistent with the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment. That Mr. Roper might have also used the email account for personal correspondence unrelated to Quadar Group does not render the warrant unconstitutional. See United States v. Matter of Search of Information Associated With Fifteen Email Addresses Stored at Premises Owned, No. 2:17-CM-3152-WC, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 159535, 2017 WL 4322826, *8 (M.D. Ala. Sept. 28, 2017) (“[T]he fact that Defendants chose to use the same email accounts for personal communications that they were simultaneously using to conduct their allegedly fraudulent business cannot insulate those email accounts from a search pursuant to the all records exception.”)

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