{"id":14451,"date":"2014-11-28T10:06:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T15:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14451"},"modified":"2014-11-28T10:06:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T15:06:36","slug":"d-me-a-private-searchers-fervent-desire-to-help-the-police-is-still-a-private-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14451","title":{"rendered":"D.Me.: A private searcher&#8217;s fervent desire to help the police is still a private search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A computer tech working on a computer saw \u201cpictures of pre-teen girls in gymnast uniforms,\u201d so he searched the search history and found searches for non-nude preteens and \u201cpre-teen porn.\u201d He reported it to the local police who did not yet seem interested in pursuing it. So, he searched deeper and found what appeared to be child pornography. He called the police again, and they came for the computer. This was purely a private search. His desire to help the police doesn\u2019t make it a governmental search. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.med.uscourts.gov\/Opinions\/Nivison\/2014\/JCN_09242014_1-14cr80_USA_v_JohnTapley.pdf\">United States v. Tapley<\/a>, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 165344 (D. Me. September 24, 2014).<\/p>\n<p>Gratuitously and wilfully assaulting a detainee is excessive force and violates 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 242. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca2.uscourts.gov\/decisions\/isysquery\/198e8609-91b6-4efe-9eaf-3fb78c468b4a\/15\/doc\/13-3691_so.pdf#xml=http:\/\/www.ca2.uscourts.gov\/decisions\/isysquery\/198e8609-91b6-4efe-9eaf-3fb78c468b4a\/15\/hilite\/\">United States v. Cossette<\/a>, 13-3691-cr (2d Cir. November 24, 2014).*<\/p>\n<p>A private civil action against somebody other than the government can\u2019t be premised on Rule 41(g). Karalis v. Gun Vault, Inc., 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 165030 (D. Nev. November 24, 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A computer tech working on a computer saw \u201cpictures of pre-teen girls in gymnast uniforms,\u201d so he searched the search history and found searches for non-nude preteens and \u201cpre-teen porn.\u201d He reported it to the local police who did not &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14451\">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":[52,43,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-private-search","category-rule-41g-return-of-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14452,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions\/14452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}