WY: IP address was PC for a CP search warrant off Limewire monitoring

The officer was monitoring Limewire computer traffic for child pornography, and he discovered downloads from an IP address. There was a “put and paste” error in the search warrant application that created a date error, but it was found to be a simple mistake, not subject to exclusion. The investigation revealed defendant’s IP address was used to download child pornography, and the four corners of the affidavit objectively showed probable cause to a reasonable careful person for a search warrant of defendant’s house for his computers. Defendant also raised a Brady issue at the suppression hearing, but he got no ruling on it before the conditional plea, and it was not preserved in the conditional plea for appeal. Lefferdink v. State, 2011 WY 75, 250 P.3d 173 (2011).*

A police officer seeing a knife does not have reasonable suspicion to believe that a knife is a “gravity knife” [one where the blade opens by gravity or flipping the wrist or a switchblade]. A plain knife is legal, but a gravity knife is not. People v Brannon, 2011 NY Slip Op 3676, 16 N.Y.3d 596, 925 N.Y.S.2d 393, 949 N.E.2d 484 (2011).*