Now a federal judge has ruled that this entire FBI operation was illegal.
The only succour for FBI is that the judgement was given based on technicality rather lack of evidence.
The decision was based on a violation of jurisdictional rules, not constitutional ones.
Carney,in a court filing.
U.S. District Judge William Youngagreedon Wednesday, writing that the warrant was issued without jurisdiction and thus was void.
It follows that the resulting search was conducted as though there were no warrant at all, he added.
Since warrantless searches are presumptively unreasonable, and the good-faith exception is inapplicable, the evidence must be excluded.
The judgement now makes it difficult for FBI to prosecute Levin and 136 others charged with pedophile crimes.
A national court policymaking group already approved the governments request to change the rules.
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