Commonwealth v. Ellis

This matter is before the Court for a resolution of the defendants’ motion to suppress electronically stored evidence seized from two separate searches of their computer system, the first of which occurred initially on May 2, 1996, and continued off-site beginning May 6, 1996; and the second of which began on February 12, 1998. The computer, work stations, and other computer system components had been removed from the Ellis & Ellis law offices in Worcester, Massachusetts during a search of those offices on May 2, 1996.

In their motion to suppress, the defendants argue that all of the…