United States v. Ganzer

This case concerns implications of a warrant issued in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), which authorized the FBI to use certain malware to identify and prosecute users of a child pornography website known as "Playpen" that operated on an anonymity network. The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained as a result of a warrant, which led to his prosecution for possession of child pornography. The court joined its sister circuits in holding that the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule set out in United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), applied to save the fruits of the warrant at issue from suppression. View "United States v. Ganzer" on Justia Law