United States v. Justin Barrett Hill

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that an on-site search of a computer “could take many hours and perhaps days” and “would not only impose a significant and unjustified burden on police resources, it would also make the search more intrusive”
• stating that wholesale seizure of mate- rials is permissible where affidavit in support of warrant pro- vides a reasonable explanation for why such a seizure is necessary
• evaluating probable cause based on the description of the images in the affidavit and not the images themselves
• noting that Dost factors had ‘‘utility’’ in context of case
• noting that officials must explain “why a wholesale seizure is necessary”
• upholding off-site search of all defendant’s computer storage media for evidence of child pornography

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).