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answered on May 17, 2011
It depends on the facts and circumstances of the stop. Although it may later be the subject of a pre-trial motion to suppress identification as a suggestive identification or a detention that arose from a lack of probable cause, it may be less intrusive to transport a suspect to the witnesses.... View More 
Police had a warrant to seize "Electronic Storeage Media" in search of child pornography, and took a magazine advertising a nudist colony. They claimed that someone associated with our I.P. address had downloaded child pornography. They also took an internet modem (not storeage media).... View More
answered on May 17, 2011
Without seeing the four corners of the search warrant, it is difficult to determine whether the police exceeded the scope of the actual warrant. When the police execute such a warrant, the computers and the related devices are submitted for forensic evaluation. These forensic evaluations can take... View More
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