ryanweston
Junior Member
What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state?California
I have been on probation for more than two years for possession of pornography because the police found a single picture in the temporary cache file of my computer that I had looked at once and didn't even know was there. Anyways, one of my probation conditions is that I, my house, my vehicle, and my computer can be searched at any time, with or without a warrant. So the police (ten of them - I must be a really dangerous individual) came to my house and searched the place. I was at work, but my wife and daughter were home. Then they left and took my computer with them. They brought it back later in the day, having searched the hard drive at the police station and determined that I didn't have anything illegal on it. What I don't understand is, since my probation conditions authorize them to search my house and computer, but make no mention of the right to seize anything, what gave them the right to take my computer and bring it to the police station? My probation officer told me that it was a routine search, that they didn't have any reason to think I had any pornography or was violating the law in any way, but that they had to take the computer to the police station because they had a fast computer there and could search it much faster at the station. I don't think their need for speed justifies the seizure. Is there another justification for the seizure that I don't understand? Oh, by the way, the computer was off the entire time it was at my house, so it's not as if they could have seen anything on the computer that made them suspicious.
I have been on probation for more than two years for possession of pornography because the police found a single picture in the temporary cache file of my computer that I had looked at once and didn't even know was there. Anyways, one of my probation conditions is that I, my house, my vehicle, and my computer can be searched at any time, with or without a warrant. So the police (ten of them - I must be a really dangerous individual) came to my house and searched the place. I was at work, but my wife and daughter were home. Then they left and took my computer with them. They brought it back later in the day, having searched the hard drive at the police station and determined that I didn't have anything illegal on it. What I don't understand is, since my probation conditions authorize them to search my house and computer, but make no mention of the right to seize anything, what gave them the right to take my computer and bring it to the police station? My probation officer told me that it was a routine search, that they didn't have any reason to think I had any pornography or was violating the law in any way, but that they had to take the computer to the police station because they had a fast computer there and could search it much faster at the station. I don't think their need for speed justifies the seizure. Is there another justification for the seizure that I don't understand? Oh, by the way, the computer was off the entire time it was at my house, so it's not as if they could have seen anything on the computer that made them suspicious.