These summaries were prepared by School of Government Legal Research Associate Alex Phipps, except for the summaries of Conner (prepared by Shea Denning) and Kelliher (prepared by Jamie Markham). [read post]

Circuits have divided in applying this doctrine to electronic storage devices, with some requiring police to have “an exact one-to-one match” between what the private party found and what police examine, and others allowing police some leeway to go beyond the private search via the substantial certainty rule [Shea Denning blogged about the private search doctrine here]. [read post]