United States v. Grimmett

How courts have described this case

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• holding that \ '[A] computer search may be as extensive as reasonably required to locate the items described in the warrant' based on probable cause.\
• concluding warrant authorizing seizure of “any and all computer equipment” was not overbroad because it contained other “sufficiently particularized language requiring a nexus with child pornography”
• noting our circuit takes “a somewhat forgiving stance when faced with a ‘particularity’ challenge to a warrant authorizing the seizure of computers”
• collecting cases from the First, Sixth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits that hold that it is unnecessary to obtain a second warrant to search a seized computer
• distinguishing Carey and concluding that the original warrant authorized the subsequent computer search because the evidence uncovered was within the original justification for the search and seizure of the computer
• “The issuing judge is entitled to go beyond the averred facts and draw upon common sense in making reasonable inferences from those facts.” (citation omitted)

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