{"id":2042,"date":"2008-05-04T10:52:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T10:29:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T10:52:31","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2042","title":{"rendered":"DoJ computer search protocol creates no Fourth Amendment rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no higher standard for search of computer than anything else, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/criminal\/cybercrime\/searching.html#searchmanual\">DoJ computer search protocol<\/a> carries no constitutional imprimatur.  United States v. Burns, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 35312 (N.D. Ill. April 29, 2008).<\/p>\n<p>Administrative search that involved a breaking of a door was unreasonable under <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=us&amp;vol=436&amp;invol=307\"><em>Colonade<\/em><\/a>. Club Retro v. Hilton, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 35231 (W.D. La. April 4, 2008):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since defendants purportedly were only conducting an administrative search and had no probable cause to believe a crime was being committed by any persons in Club Retro, defendants&#8217; warrantless and dramatic entry into Club Retro was not the type of entry contemplated under the statutes for an administrative search, and their forcible entry into the private office area of Club Retro was not justified. Therefore, to the extent defendants are attempting to re-characterize their warrantless searches for narcotics as an administrative search for illegal alcohol sales, that argument is unavailing to exempt defendants from the requirements of the Fourth Amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Defendant would not have prevailed on any search claim that defense counsel supposedly should have pursued, so he was not prejudiced. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judicial.state.ia.us\/court_of_appeals\/Recent_Opinions\/20080430\/8-152.pdf\">State v. Hoskins<\/a>, 2008 Iowa App. LEXIS 259 (April 30, 2008).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2042\">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-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}