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9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
Criminal

Dec. 5, 2017

9th Circuit considers challenge to conviction based on evidence seized under surveillance warrant

A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considered Monday whether files found on the computer of a Boeing employee suspected of providing China with blueprints to a military aircraft should have been used to prosecute him for child pornography possession.

PASADENA — Judges on a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considered Monday whether a child pornography conviction secured with evidence obtained under a secret surveillance warrant should be upheld.

“This case highlights in the most excruciating way the tension between the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the way it’s been interpreted and the mandate of Franks and the 4th Amendment,” the defendant-appellant’s a...

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