Evidence of Child Porn Admissible Despite Federal Rule Violation

FBI agents violated the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure by not giving homeowners a complete copy of the warrant to search their home but the technical error didn’t require suppressing the child pornography evidence found on a computer in the house, the Ninth Circuit said.

When the Federal Bureau of Investigation determined that child pornography was being downloaded to a computer in the Dela Cruz residence in Waipahus, Hawaii, they obtained a search warrant and executed it on the house.

The Dela Cruzs’ requests to see the warrant were ignored until the search was complete. But the packet containing the ...