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Motion to Suppress Denied in Part and Granted in Part -- Defendant was charged with "two counts of production of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), one count of receipt of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2), and one count of possession of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B)." The charges stemmed from an investigation into a report that a man driving a white SUV had exposed himself to a young girl near the Dixie Elementary School in San Rafael, California.

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In the December 2009 issue of Vanity Fair, contributing editor Mark Bowden takes a close look at an Internet sexual predator case and raises some interesting questions about police investigative procedures.

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Not surprisingly, U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan (the Obama administration's top legal advocate) has filed a brief seeking a rehearing of the 9th Circuit's en banc decision recommending strict limits on governmental computer searches. The ruling was handed down last August in United States v. Comprehensive Drug Testing, Inc., the government's long-running investigation into steroid use by atheletes.

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Two recent incidents -- one humorous, one far less so -- graphically illustrate the ubiquity of video technology these days. Together, these cases serve as a good reminder that video is rapidly becoming what email was ten years ago: the smoking gun in electronic investigations.

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