Legal Opinion
United States v. William Adderson Jarrett
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 29, 2003No. 02-4953PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILKINSON and Senior Judge BEEZER joined.
OPINION
DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge:
In this case, the Government used information provided by an anonymous computer hacker to initiate a search which produced evidence that William Jarrett violated federal statutes prohibiting the manufacture and receipt of child pornography. The district court suppressed this evidence on the ground that the hacker acted as a Government agent, and so violated the Fourth Amendment, when he procured pornographic…
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