Legal Opinion
United States v. Steven Vincent Smith
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 28, 2019No. 17-14915; 18-11852PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEWSOM, Circuit Judge:
James Taylor and Steven Smith are the latest in a long line of child-pornography consumers to argue that the evidence of their crimes should be suppressed because the warrant that led to its discovery-issued by a magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Virginia but purporting to authorize a nationwide, remote-access computer search-violated the Fourth Amendment. By our count, we become today the eleventh (!) court of appeals to assess the constitutionality of the so-called "NIT warrant." Although the ten others haven't all employed the same analysis, they've all…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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