Not really. The burglars are not state actors. The porn guy is toast.
Yep. He is toast. They were not acting as government agents so any evidence they turned over that led to the search warrant on the computers in his possession is admissible.
Even criminals have their own morality and ethics.
Although I think this POS, should be prosecuted, any good defense attorney could punch many holes in this one.
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.
"We burglarized a house, officer, and stole these CD-ROMs of all unlikely things and we took them straight home and looked at them and found that kiddie porn you told us to find... Er, I mean, we found kiddy porn on them so we did the Christian thing and turned ourselves in so you policemen could catch that bad man! So now you're going to look the other way on that illegal chop-shop we were running out of that phony auto repair business where we had all those stolen cars, right?"
Right.
The ATF does stuff like this all the time, as you might have heard recently.