{"id":35260,"date":"2018-10-26T05:14:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35260"},"modified":"2018-10-26T05:14:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:14:34","slug":"ca9-playpen-warrant-violated-rule-41b1-but-gfe-still-saved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35260","title":{"rendered":"CA9: Playpen warrant violated Rule 41(b)(1), but GFE still saved it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Network Investigative Technique (NIT) warrant (&#8220;Playpen&#8221; warrant) issued by a magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Virginia exceeded the general territorial scope identified in Fed. R. Crim. P. 41(b)(1)  and was thus void ab initio because it authorized a search of an activating computer in California. The NIT mechanism is not a &#8220;tracking device&#8221; under Rule 41(b)(4). The good faith exception, however, did not require suppression of evidence. <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2018\/10\/23\/17-10230.pdf\">United States v. Henderson<\/a>, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 29848 (9th Cir. Oct. 23, 2018); <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/memoranda\/2018\/10\/23\/17-10340.pdf\">United States v. Hammond<\/a>, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 29880 (9th Cir. Oct. 23, 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Network Investigative Technique (NIT) warrant (&#8220;Playpen&#8221; warrant) issued by a magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Virginia exceeded the general territorial scope identified in Fed. R. Crim. P. 41(b)(1) and was thus void ab initio because it authorized &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35260\">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":[15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f-r-crim-p-41","category-good-faith-exception"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35260","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=35260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35261,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35260\/revisions\/35261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}