What is the scope of a search warrant for a child pornography offence?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from United States v. Galpin, Docket No. 11-4808-cr (2nd Cir. 2013):

Even after the references to state and federal law and images of child pornography are removed, there remain numerous clauses whose relationship to the registration offense is, at best, unclear. After redaction of the two clauses identified above, the first and second paragraphs of the warrant would still broadly authorize a search of "[a]ny computers," "external and internal drives," "digital camera's [sic] and their internal or external storage media," "[a]ny and all computing or data processing software," and any electronic storage device for any evidence substantiating a registration violation, without providing the forensic examiner with any guidance or limitations as to what kinds of files might be relevant. Warrant 1. While those provisions describe the places to be searched, they do not describe with adequate particularity the "items to be seized by their relation to designated crimes." United States v. Williams, 592 F.3d 511, 519 (4th Cir. 2010) (emphasis added). The third paragraph of the warrant particularizes the items that the government may seize, but nothing in the current record explains how the vast majority of those items - e.g., access numbers, passwords, and PINS relating to voice mail systems, computing or data processing literature (including written materials), audio or video cassette tape recordings, books, and magazines - could possibly reveal evidence that Galpin possessed or used an unregistered internet account or communication identity.

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