Re: [tor-talk] Senior US District Judge Leon Jordan rules against FBI in PlayPen case

[Mirimir <mirimir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/25/2016 09:52 PM, ITechGeek wrote:
> "Jordan allows the government to use the evidence gathered by the FBI in
> the case against Scarbrough over the objections of defense attorney Gregory
> P. Isaacs. Jordan used the “federal good-faith exception” to rescue the
> evidence. Under that exception, if federal agents believed they were acting
> under legal authority and did nothing illegal in their efforts to secure a
> warrant, the evidence can still be used.
> 
> “(Isaacs’) objections that officers acted deliberately, recklessly or with
> gross negligence and that it should have been apparent to law enforcement
> that the Virginia magistrate lacked authority to sign the warrant are
> simply unsupported by the record,” Jordan wrote."

Yes, it was a narrow victory :(

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> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Mirimir <mirimir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> | Senior U.S. District Judge Leon Jordan ruled that the Federal
>> | Bureau of Investigation violated both the US Constitution and
>> | federal rules of criminal procedure when they hacked nearly
>> | 1,300 users who accessed the PlayPen child porn site.
>>
>>
> https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/10/26/knoxville-federal-judge-rules-fbi-playpen-case/
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