Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-25 Thread Bill Stewart
This discussion has touched on a variety of topics, some of them at cross purposes. If you catch one cop in black ninja gear inside your house, and shoot him, at least in California, you'll probably have legitimate self-defense claims, and if he did yell "Police", well, dead men tell no tales. Sh

Re: Secret Warrants

2001-08-12 Thread Bill Stewart
At 06:50 PM 08/11/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: >On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, A. Melon wrote: > >What is needed, seriously needed right now, is some good, open source > > surveillance dectection software. Something that would find key-logger > > software or hardware, something that would check your pho

Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-08 Thread Matthew Gaylor
At 8:59 AM -0700 8/8/01, Tim May wrote: >(Sandy and Black Unicorn will doubtless consider it "bellicose" to >say that if I ever find a black-clad ninja rustling around in my >house, I expect to treat him as I would treat any other such >varmint. A double tap in the center of mass. You might wa

RE: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-08 Thread Aimee Farr
Somebody asked: > >>1) Are the secret warrants always revealed eventually, regardless of > >>whether a court case happens or the evidence is introduced? Is > it possible > >>that there are N never-revealed secret warrants for every warrant > >>discussed i

NGOs and Black Bag Jobs? Was: Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-08 Thread Black Unicorn
- Original Message - From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 4:48 PM Subject: Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions > On Wednesday, August 8, 2001, at 04:03 PM, Dr. Evil wrote: > > >

Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-08 Thread Kerry L. Bonin
wiretapping to other officers that could be used to collect legal grounds for admissible search against people not directly related to the initial wiretapping. In the LA case, this was sometimes as simple as "be at X at Y time", where the tipped off LEO could observe an incident "accide

Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-08 Thread gbroiles
At 03:53 PM 8/8/2001 -0700, Black Unicorn wrote: >From: "Sandy Sandfort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > [...] In California, there is the presumption > > that anyone in your house (at least after dark, though I'd have to research > > that) is there with the intent of causing death or great bodily harm.

Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-08 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:59:55AM -0700, Tim May wrote: > So much for the Fourth Amendment, which was designed to protect against > precisely this kind of police and state snooping. When a scrap of paper, > issued in secret, enables the king's men to wander through a house, the > "secure in on

Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-08 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, August 8, 2001, at 04:03 PM, Dr. Evil wrote: >> I agree with Dr. Evil about the unlikelihood of it ever happening, but >> if it >> did, I think the intruder is toast. In California, there is the >> presumption > > Actually, now that I think about it, I think it is essentially > i

Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-08 Thread Greg Broiles
the proceeds of the tap in court, or disclose its existence. >1) Are the secret warrants always revealed eventually, regardless of >whether a court case happens or the evidence is introduced? Is it possible >that there are N never-revealed secret warrants for every warrant >discussed

Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-08 Thread Dr. Evil
> I agree with Dr. Evil about the unlikelihood of it ever happening, but if it > did, I think the intruder is toast. In California, there is the presumption Actually, now that I think about it, I think it is essentially impossible for it to ever happen. If it were to happen, it is almost certai

Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-08 Thread Black Unicorn
- Original Message - From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 8:59 AM Subject: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions > On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 10:24 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote: > > >

RE: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-08 Thread Sandy Sandfort
Black Unicorn wrote: > I didn't realize any states but Virginia > still held this old "burglary" definition. > Are you certain that's current law? No, but I'm about to leave town on business so I won't be looking it up. My recollection is that California law actually IMPROVED from the viewpoint

Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-08 Thread Black Unicorn
- Original Message - From: "Sandy Sandfort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 1:56 PM Subject: RE: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions > Tim wrote: > > > 2) What happens in these breaking-a

Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-08 Thread Faustine
Here's the most comprehensive source of case law covering the subject I've ever seen: Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations "This publication provides a comprehensive guide to t

Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

2001-08-08 Thread Tim May
x27;ve wondered about two main things vis-a-vis these "black bag jobs" inside the U.S.: 1) Are the secret warrants always revealed eventually, regardless of whether a court case happens or the evidence is introduced? Is it possible that there are N never-revealed secret warrants for