Citing the dangers of overly broad search warrants for computer hard drives, a federal appeals court has vacated the conditional guilty plea of a Tioga County man who admitted to production and possession of child pornography.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit last week agreed that the warrant for the search of James Galpin's home was facially overbroad, and police lacked probable cause to search for evidence of child pornography because the warrant was approved solely to search for evidence that Galpin had violated his obligations as a registered sex offender by continuing to have underage boys in his residence.
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