{"id":64326,"date":"2026-06-28T17:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64326"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:31:19","slug":"w-d-n-y-possibility-of-co-conspirators-in-mass-murder-justified-emergency-disclosure-request-to-apple-verizon-and-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64326","title":{"rendered":"W.D.N.Y.: Possibility of co-conspirators in mass murder justified emergency disclosure request to Apple, Verizon, and Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the Buffalo Tops Grocery mass shooting, the emergency disclosure request to Apple, Facebook, and Verizon was based on the possibility there were coconspirators. Even though defendant\u2019s manifesto said he was acting alone, investigators didn\u2019t have to take that at face value. CSLI was also validly obtained for the period of his planning, and that showed nexus. Defendant\u2019s claims of \u201cunknowns\u201d about how the Verizon warrant was executed didn\u2019t merit a hearing on alleged defects in execution defendant hoped to find. United States v. Gendron, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 109541 (W.D.N.Y. May 18, 2026).  See \u00a7 25.21 (Sirhan Sirhan case arising in 1968 involved a warrantless search of his house because of the possibility of co-conspirators.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was reasonable suspicion defendant wasn\u2019t driving in his lane, and that supported the stop. Then, drugs were in plain view in the vehicle. State v. Alberts, 2026 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 374 (June 25, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a prison cell. Gregory v. State, 2026 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 88 (June 26, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Buffalo Tops Grocery mass shooting, the emergency disclosure request to Apple, Facebook, and Verizon was based on the possibility there were coconspirators. Even though defendant\u2019s manifesto said he was acting alone, investigators didn\u2019t have to take that at &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64326\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,51,113,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-emergency-exigency","category-plain-view","category-prison-and-jail-searches","category-social-media-warrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64326","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64327,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64326\/revisions\/64327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}