United States v. Robert Beam Runyan, United States of America v. Robert Beam Runyan

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• holding that defendant exhibited subjective expectation of privacy in images of child pornography by storing them in containers away from plain view
• holding that defendant exhibited subjective expectation of privacy in images of child pornography by storing them in containers away from plain view
• holding that police could conduct warrantless review of computer disks already viewed by private party, but not of disks that had not been so viewed
• holding that police did not exceed the scope of a private search by examining more files on partially searched computer disks that a private searcher revealed contained child pornography
• assuming that computer disks are containers and subject to standards applying to closed container searches
• explaining that factor analysis appropriate to one type of search “cannot necessarily be applied to other types of searches without modification”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).