The way I read that, it didn't seem like a victory since the judge is still allowing people to be prosecuted (granted some of them deserve it), but the judge said the FBI needed a warrant in the local jurisdiction of the raids and they didn't.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -ITG (ITechGeek) | [email protected] <https://itg.nu/> https://keybase.io/itechgeek | https://itg.nu/ Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:42 AM, Mirimir <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 :( > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ----------------------------------- > > -ITG (ITechGeek) | [email protected] > > https://keybase.io/itechgeek | https://itg.nu/ > > Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: > > http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net > > > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Mirimir <[email protected]> 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/ > >> -- > >> tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
