Stale warrants doom porn cases
DallasNews.com | News for Dallas, Texas | Latest News: "When Dallas police and federal agents wrapped up a sophisticated Internet child pornography investigation in April 2004, authorities boasted at a news conference that arrests could number in the thousands and circle the globe.
But just a few blocks away at the Dallas County criminal courthouse, attorneys are now quietly getting their clients' child pornography cases thrown out by exposing what they call a fatal flaw in the way investigators proceeded with their work.
The problem: Detectives obtained many of their search warrants based on information that was more than a year old, far longer than what constitutional protections from unreasonable searches allow.
'I don't think there's a line, but certainly a year is stale under anyone's definition,' said attorney Reed Prospere, who got the charges thrown out for three clients."
But just a few blocks away at the Dallas County criminal courthouse, attorneys are now quietly getting their clients' child pornography cases thrown out by exposing what they call a fatal flaw in the way investigators proceeded with their work.
The problem: Detectives obtained many of their search warrants based on information that was more than a year old, far longer than what constitutional protections from unreasonable searches allow.
'I don't think there's a line, but certainly a year is stale under anyone's definition,' said attorney Reed Prospere, who got the charges thrown out for three clients."
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