By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Robert Durst, the millionaire real-estate heir who was the subject of a popular TV show, was subjected to an illegal FBI search before he was arrested on murder charges, his attorney said this week. The Boston Herald reports that the FBI “rummaged” through the 71-year-old man’s hotel room without a proper…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has been quietly using information gathered during warrantless NSA surveillance to comb through emails belonging to foreigners to assist in investigations, the New York Times reports. The Times discovered the FBI was gathering copies of unprocessed communications that were received without a warrant. The Inspector General report commended the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal judge has postponed an illegal Internet gambling trial to determine whether FBI agents went beyond the law when they entered Las Vegas hotel suites without a warrant and obtained information from the computers of the suspects, the Associated Press reports. The Jan. 12 trial date was vacated pending a…
New York Times Editorial Board If your Internet service goes down and you call a technician, can you be certain that the person who arrives at your door is actually there to restore service? What if he is a law enforcement agent in disguise who has disabled the service so he can enter your home…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police who use drug-sniffing dogs outside of homes to detect crimes without a warrant are violating the ban on unreasonable searches, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday, the New York Times reports. In this case, a police dog detected the odor of marijuana outside a Florida house, and authorities used the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has abandoned it’s long-standing opposition to requiring law enforcement to obtain a warrant before gaining access to certain e-mails, the Washington Post reports. The department had objected to law enforcement accessing e-mails that are 180 days old or less if they had been unopened, the Post reported. “There is…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal authorities will make their case before federal judges that warrantless tracking of cell phone locations is legal, CNET reports. Federal prosecutors don’t want to ask a judge to approve a warrant before obtaining stored records that reveal the constant movements of mobile phone users over a two-month period, according to CNET….
