United States v. Loera

EBEL, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to apply Fourth Amendment principles to a situation where a police officer executing a warrant to search an electronic storage device for evidence of one crime discovers evidence of other criminal activity. Here, while executing a warrant to search Jason Loera's home for evidence of computer fraud, FBI agents discovered child pornography on four of Loera's CDs. Despite discovering the pornography, the agents continued their search for evidence of computer fraud-one agent continued to search the CDs that were found to contain some child pornography…