Conference Materials

 

Technology Assisted Crimes Against Children: Computer Searches and Seizures and Other Pretrial Issues (May 3-4, 2012) Reno, NV

Welcome and Course Introduction

Digital Evidence Locations and Computer Forensics

Fourth Amendment Structure and Applicability: Expectations of Privacy

Overview of Technology-Facilitated Crimes Against Children

Fourth Amendment Satisfaction: Competing Views of the Nature of Digital Evidence Searches

Warrantless Searches and Seizures: Consent, Search Incident to Arrest and Probable Cause-Based Vehicle Searches

Outside the Box: Internet and Network

Typical Investigations Involving Digital Evidence and Statutory Review

Fourth Amendment Framework Regulating the Internet and Networks (Outside the Box Investigations

Discovery, Including of Child Pornography Images and Impact of Adam Walsh Act

Statements by Suspects/Entrapment

All Group Discussion: Other Pretrial Motions

Additional source materials

Thomas K. Clancy, The Fourth Amendment: Its History and Interpretation
(Carolina Academic Press 2008).

Free Supplement: Update of new Supreme Court Cases to Treatise
Updated January 2012

Thomas K. Clancy, The Fourth Amendment Aspects of Computer Searches and Seizures: A Perspective and a Primer, 75 Miss. L.J. 193 (2005).