United States v. Ackerman

ERIC F. MELGREN, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

This matter is again before the Court on Defendant Walter Ackerman's Motion to Suppress (Doc. 19). Defendant seeks the suppression of an email and its attachments arguing that they were obtained through an illegal search and seizure. This Court originally denied Defendant's Motion to Suppress finding that AOL and the National Center for Missing and Exploited *1269Children ("NCMEC"), the parties who searched Defendant's emails, were not state actors. Thus, the Fourth Amendment was inapplicable to their conduct in this case. In the alternative, this Court…