Source: http://whereswalden.com/2010/05/06/dear-lawzyweb/
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 00:33:24+00:00

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If you’ve paid even the slightest attention to tech news, you know Apple lost an iPhone prototype in a bar in the Bay Area. The finder sold it to Gizmodo for $5000, and Jason Chen of Gizmodo published a story with photos and details of it (and numerous followups) — a juicy tech story. More recently, San Mateo police, pursuant to a warrant, searched Jason Chen’s house, seizing numerous pieces of technology hardware. It thus becomes a juicy law story: trade secrets, protection of journalists’ sources, freedom of speech and the First Amendment, handling of lost or stolen property, lots of possible angles. In a number of them it approaches the clearly-defined boundaries of state and federal laws. Great popcorn fodder all around.
There are enough legal questions to satisfy anyone looking to argue them. There are correct answers and incorrect answers, but for a legal novice like me for whom the unknown unknowns are considerable, it’s far more productive to read others’ arguments than to hazard speculation. Also, some parts are matters of fact potentially for a jury to decide, further imperiling predictions.
Perhaps there is a more mundane explanation for the failure to use a subpoena in this case: The DA [district attorney] may have been under intense pressure (from whom? Apple, which reported the phone was stolen?) to act even before he could convene a grand jury to issue a subpoena.
If so, the DA may come to regret his haste: If a court rules he shouldn’t have used a warrant, the DA’s possession of evidence seized from Chen’s home may undermine any possible prosecution of other, more culpable, parties.
In order to qualify as a “person aggrieved by an unlawful search and seizure,” [for whom evidence from an illegal search or seizure could be suppressed] one must have been a victim of a search or seizure, one against whom the search was directed, as distinguished from one who claims prejudice only through the use of evidence gathered as a consequence of a search or seizure directed at someone else.
It seems to me that, were the warrant declared invalid, evidence from the search would be suppressed in any potential prosecution of Jason Chen (and maybe Gizmodo — but in Alderman v. United States , 394 U. S. 165 (1968), the Court explicitly declined to apply the exclusionary rule with respect to evidence gained through illegal search of a “coconspirator”; Gizmodo or its other employees might or might not be such, maybe depending on whom a case targeted). However, I don’t see how evidence would be suppressed in the prosecution of anyone else — most particularly of the finder of the prototype.
The question for the la[w]zyweb: would evidence from Jason Chen’s computers, pursuant to an illegal search and seizure, be admissible in court against the original finder of the iPhone prototype? I think it would be admissible, and I think Peter Scheer is mistaken if he is suggesting that it wouldn’t.
“We have held that ‘capacity to claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment depends . . . upon whether the person who claims the protection of the Amendment has a legitimate expectation of privacy in the invaded place.'” Minnesota v. Carter, 525 U.S. 83, 88 (1998) (quoting Rakas v. Illinois, 439 U.S. 128, 143 (1978)).
“[T]he Fourth Amendment protects people, not places.” Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347, 351 (1967).
The concept is generally known as Fourth Amendment standing.
This statement indicates a lack of understanding in how law is practiced.
If there were objective, concrete answers to every legal question, lawyers wouldn’t be giving “arguments,” and every court case involving an issue would be ruled the same way.
Even though it’s largely the determining factor of what is a “correct” answer, the Supreme Court has even reversed itself from time to time.
You’re reading the statement more literally than I had intended it to be read. “correct” or “incorrect” refers to what a hypothetical completely impartial court, properly versed in all arguments for and against every question at issue, would eventually decide in each instance — or, as a case progresses, what the actual court will eventually decide. (I’m aware no such thing exists. It’s still a useful abstraction, in the same way that the “free market” is a useful abstraction for much of the economy.) At the end of the day, when a court rules there must be one correct answer and numerous incorrect answers. We can argue all we want over which is which, but the eventual opinion will still pick only one to be correct.
As far as the broader point being made: If I think I know all the bases on which an argument can be made, that, with consideration, may be enough to make my own fully-considered argument. If I only know some of them, and know which ones I haven’t fully examined, that’s enough to ask questions to gain further knowledge toward being able to make such an argument. If I don’t even know what the full set of bases is, then I can ask questions about what I do know, and inquire what the remaining ones are, but for everything outside that narrow segment I’m better off reading than committing argumentum ad ignorantiam (even if my argument does select the correct answer by little more than happenstance).
I should note that properly refraining from argument is particularly desirable in fact-bound situations, as the one here seems to be moreso than not.
“The question whether the exclusionary rule’s remedy is appropriate in a particular context has long been regarded as an issue separate from the question whether the Fourth Amendment rights of the party seeking to invoke the rule were violated by police conduct.” Illinois v. Gates , 462 U. S. 213, 223 (1983).
Where an officer acts in objectively reasonable reliance on a facially valid warrant, the exclusionary rule usually will not apply, even if the warrant is later determined to be invalid. See United States v. Leon , 468 U. S. 897 (1984).

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