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W.D.Ky.: PC for CP was shown off hashmarks on image found on a German computer associated with a US IP address

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The search warrant for defendant’s computer for child pornography was not stale when the information was only ten months old, considering that CP is commonly kept for a long time. The probable cause here was based on a known CP file with a specific hash value being accessed in Germany from an IP address in the U.S. which was sent by German police to ICE which established that during the relevant time period was associated with defendant. The government also showed in the affidavit that defendant was involved with CP before that. United States v. Hampton, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 112970 (W.D. Ky. September 10, 2010).* See Ralph C. Losey, Hash: the New Bates Stamp, 12 J. Tech. L. & Pol'y 1, 12 (2007): What is hash? As the term is used today in electronic discovery, it is neither a food nor an illegal substance; hash is a mathematical process...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on October 27, 2010 (boomark / email).