Police arrest man for child pornography after tipoff from burglars

The Inquisitr ^

[Atlas Sneezed]

They raided this home on the results of a home burglary? And dropped the charges on the buglers.

How do they know that the files collected came from the defendant? They could have been part of the burgers home stash, etc, etc.

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Te exclusionary rule applies to deter cop misbehavior, not to prevent getting evidence from other miscreants (often co-conspirators).

The cops can “know” by fingerprints on the discs, or more likely by other porn in the house after they get a search warrant.

[Atlas Sneezed]

They could have saved themselves by staying quiet.

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They could have dropped them in the mail to the cops with a note, too:

“We’re burglars, and thought you should know that the guy on 123 Elm street is a kiddie porn fiend. We found these on his desk in the back room, next to the big potted plant. We didn’t swipe his crappy computer because it was old and heavy. You’ll probably find the pervs fingerprints on these, and more porn on his computer and other discs we didn’t steal. Hope this helps. We may be bad but we ain’t evil.”

Or, they could have hired a lawyer to offer the evidence in exchange for immunity.

[tacticalogic]

The guy will probably be charged for what was found pursuant to the warrant, rather than what the burglars brought in.

Agreed.

I wonder what other stolen property might be found at the homes of the burglars.

[The KG9 Kid]

You know why those kids stole a whole stack of CD-ROMs?:

Because, gosh, you can hardly find them for sale anymore at Best Buy.

If he'd left his stack of old 1.44mb 3.5" floppy discs laying around, those burglars would have cleared him out of those too! They're rarer than hen's teeth now!

Right: They didn't go looking for guns and jewelry in all the likely places, instead they took the clumsy to conceal stack of CD-ROMs and left the electronics behind.

This story stinks. Oh well, the ends justify the means, I guess.

[Psalm 144]

“I wonder what other stolen property might be found at the homes of the burglars.”

Heh. I like the way you think.

[tacticalogic]

The perv won't be charged for what was on the disks that were turned in, and the burglars won't be charged for stealing them.

Goose, gander, sauce?

[Psalm 144]

I expect porn guy will be charged for whatever is recovered as a result of the warranted search. Burglar guys will probably get some lesser charge, like criminal tresspass or somesuch. The American ‘criminal justice’ racket is a circus. Tom Wolfe’s ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’ was a fair representation of its workings.

[Bob]

How so? Would an attorney be able to challenge the evidence on a "chain of custody" basis?

It's not his stuff the kids broke in and put it there.

Unless his fingerprints are on the stuff.