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First Circuit: FBI’s Ruse Claiming National Emergency to Obtain Consent to Search Held Unlawful

by Douglas Ankney

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that a search wherein FBI agents lied about an emergency in order to gain consent to search a suspect’s computers violates the Fourth Amendment.

On October 23, 2013, ten FBI agents arrived at the home shared by ...

 

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