Volume: 8 Issue: 4
( 2008)
Keywords:
united states america v robert ellsworth crist iii
us
federal trial court
digital image
hash value
hard drive
unconstitutional search
Authors:
susan l. ross
Organisations:
fulbright & jaworski llp
Jurisdictions:
us
United States of America v Robert Ellsworth Crist, III
Criminal Action No. 1:07-cr-211, M.D. Pa.
In United States v Crist, a US federal trial court rules that a state investigator's review of a digital image of a computer's hard drive and a 'hash value' of the files stored on that hard drive represented an unconstitutional search.