• Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’m curious: if LE images your devices and then you revoke consent, and then they search anyway and find something incriminating, are they then able to get a warrant after the fact, or does the fruit of the poisoned tree mean they can no longer use data from that device as evidence?

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      1 year ago

      Not a laywer, but after consent is withdrawn court should rule that everything after that point is inadmissable evidence.

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        1 year ago

        That’s assuming they actually looked without permission, of course.

        If they image your devices and you withdraw consent, they could always get a court order at any time to examine the contents if they haven’t already taken a look.

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          Right, but they can’t use the data from the device to get the court order to examine it to make it legal to use. Order of things matter here.