Petersen v. Forest City Ratner Cos., LLC

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• holding a delay in search of a computer constitutional because a written return listing the electronic devices to be examined was filed within the statutorily required time frame
• observing that detective “executed the search warrant by making a ‘mirror image’ of [defendant]’s hard drives and the electronic data storage devices.”
• holding that seizure of a computer server pending a search warrant was reasonable “[g]iven the ease with which computer files may be accessed and deleted” and the greater disruption that would have been caused by posting an officer and waiting for a warrant
• “The exigency necessitating . . . seizure dissipated once the computer had been secured, requiring the police to seek a search warrant” to examine its contents
• “required warrant return procedures are ministerial, and failure to comply therewith is not ground for voiding an otherwise valid search”
• police made “mirror image” of computer’s hard drives and of electronic data storage devices

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).