I guess the moral here is....don't do anything "wrong." :-D
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM, William Herrin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 21, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Phil Fagan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I would think this is only an issue if they throw out the Fourth in > that when > >> they use that data collected "inadvertantly" to build a case a against > you > >> they use no other data collected under a proper warrant. > > > > That statement ignores a longstanding legal principle known as "fruit of > the poison tree". > > Howdy, > > In spite of what you may have seen on TV, law enforcement is not > required to ignore evidence of a crime which turns up during a lawful > search merely because it's evidence of a different crime. Fruit of the > poisonous tree applies when the original search for whatever it was > they were originally looking for is unlawful. Supposedly the FISA > court found the NSA's troll for terrorists to be lawful. Once that's > true, evidence of any crime may be lawfully introduced in court. > > > For a fun read, check out the Ilustrated Guide to Criminal Law: > http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=18 > > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > -- > William D. Herrin ................ [email protected] [email protected] > 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> > Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 > > -- Phil Fagan Denver, CO 970-480-7618
