\u201cSeveral courts have rejected the application of Jones to the investigation of file sharing programs,” United States v. Brashear, Criminal No. 4:11-CR-0062, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 163865, 2013 WL 6065326, at *3 (M.D. Pa. Nov. 18, 2013) (citations omitted), and the Court finds the reasoning of these cases persuasive. The government did not use a tracking device, such as at issue in Jones; instead, it merely obtained information publicly available on shared files via a software program that connected with defendant’s computer on which defendant had installed a file-sharing program.\u201d United States v. Dennis, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 65694 (N.D. Ga. April 7, 2014).*<\/p>\n
There was reasonable suspicion defendant and a suspected prostitute were doing it then there was a furtive movement: \u201c(1) Anderson was in a high crime area where prostitution and other crimes occurred; (2) Anderson had been parked in a lane of travel with a female passenger for no apparent reason; (3) Anderson and his female passenger did not know each other’s names; (4) Anderson’s fly was open; and (5) Anderson made a hand move that could have involved trying to hide something in the back seat immediately upon seeing a police vehicle. These factors collectively provided Corporal Porter with at least reasonable suspicion that prostitution may have been occurring. … While there may have been innocent explanations for all of these factors, this does not negate the existence of reasonable suspicion.\u201d United States v. Anderson<\/a>, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 9004 (5th Cir. May 14, 2014).*<\/p>\n Defendant consented to the search after a conversation with the police. United States v. Lee, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66261 (E.D. Mo. April 22, 2014).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cSeveral courts have rejected the application of Jones to the investigation of file sharing programs,” United States v. Brashear, Criminal No. 4:11-CR-0062, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 163865, 2013 WL 6065326, at *3 (M.D. Pa. Nov. 18, 2013) (citations omitted), and … Continue reading