United States v. Aron Lichtenberger

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• concluding that an officer's lack of \virtual certainty\ he viewed the same child pornography images a private searcher viewed on the defendant's laptop dispositively established that his search was unconstitutional under the private-search doctrine
• concluding that an officer’s lack of “virtual certainty” he viewed the same child pornography images a private searcher viewed on the defendant’s laptop dispositively established that his search was unconstitutional under the private-search doctrine
• holding private search doctrine inapplicable where “there was a very real possibility” that officer’s warrantless search uncovered information that no private party had seen
• explaining that there is no expansion of search where government has \near-certainty regarding what they would find and little chance to see much other than contraband\
• finding that “under Riley, the nature of the electronic device greatly increases the potential privacy interests at stake,” and noting that a laptop computer is a “device with even greater [storage] capacity than the cell phones at issue in Riley”
• relying on Riley’s - 21 - STATE V. TERRELL Opinion of the Court guidance in applying the private-search doctrine to a laptop search

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