PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

Fri Jun 21 18:42:32 UTC 2013

I guess the moral here is....don't do anything "wrong."

:-D

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> > On Jun 21, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Phil Fagan <philfagan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I would think this is only an issue if they throw out the Fourth in
> that when
> >> they use that data collected "inadvertantly" to build a case a against
> you
> >> they use no other data collected under a proper warrant.
> >
> > That statement ignores a longstanding legal principle known as "fruit of
> the poison tree".
>
> Howdy,
>
> In spite of what you may have seen on TV, law enforcement is not
> required to ignore evidence of a crime which turns up during a lawful
> search merely because it's evidence of a different crime. Fruit of the
> poisonous tree applies when the original search for whatever it was
> they were originally looking for is unlawful. Supposedly the FISA
> court found the NSA's troll for terrorists to be lawful. Once that's
> true, evidence of any crime may be lawfully introduced in court.
>
>
> For a fun read, check out the Ilustrated Guide to Criminal Law:
> http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=18
>
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
>
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