{"id":7732,"date":"2012-09-19T08:02:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T07:57:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T07:57:37","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7732","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers.com: &#8220;Cops Can Use Your Friends on Facebook \u2013 for Now&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lawyers.com\/2012\/09\/cops-can-use-your-friends-on-facebook-for-now\/\">Cops Can Use Your Friends on Facebook \u2013 for Now<\/a> by Michele Bowman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Law enforcement pulled another surprising move recently in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2012\/08\/17\/melvin_colon_ruling_facebook_friends_can_share_your_private_posts_with_the_fbi.html\">the case of Melvin Colon<\/a>, an alleged gangster from the Bronx, when cops convinced one of his Facebook friends to let them have access to Colon\u2019s page. As a result, cops secured photos and posts that helped to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atf.gov\/press\/releases\/2011\/09\/092711-ny-manhattan-us-attorney-charges-eight-members-of-violent-bronx-gang-with-racketeering-murder-and-narcotics-trafficking.pdf\">indict him<\/a> for gang-related racketeering, murder, and drug charges.<\/p>\n<p>Colon fought the indictment, brandishing his Fourth Amendment right to privacy and arguing that he had a legitimate expectation that his friends would keep his posts about rival gang members and threats of violence to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong, said U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III in an order dated August 10. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7732\">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-7732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732","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=7732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}