{"id":1947,"date":"2008-07-21T15:12:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T06:55:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T06:55:55","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1947","title":{"rendered":"Computer search warrant read too narrowly by motions court by ignoring technological realities; suppression reversed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state showed probable cause and nexus to the places to be searched within the four corners of the affidavit to search for child porn.  The motion court&#8217;s reading was too narrow. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malawyersweekly.com\/signup\/opinion.cfm?page=ma\/opin\/sup\/1006408.htm\">Commonwealth v. Anthony<\/a>, 451 Mass. 59, 883 N.E.2d 918 (2008):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Contrary to the defendant&#8217;s assertion, the Commonwealth is not asking this court to loosen the standard for finding the requisite nexus between the criminal activity described in the affidavit and the place to be searched where computer-based crimes are involved. We recognize that computer technology has rendered the collection, storage, and dissemination of child pornography more amorphous. Nonetheless, all that is required is the consistent application of our well-established approach to analyzing the four corners of an affidavit for determining whether probable cause exists for a search warrant to issue. Here, we conclude that the motion judge was too rigid in his reading of Detective Donovan&#8217;s affidavits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Defendant had not been seized when he discarded a gun as officers approached him to talk to him. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malawyersweekly.com\/signup\/opinion.cfm?page=ma\/opin\/coa\/1104808.htm\">Commonwealth v. Monteiro<\/a>, 71 Mass. App. Ct. 477, 883 N.E.2d 334 (2008).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1947\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}