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posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday August 26 2015, @09:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the mental-image-from-headline-far-more-salacious-than-actual-situation dept.

He's a bloodhound for the digital age. Much the way other dogs can pick up the scent of a fugitive or a cache of cocaine, Bear the labrador can smell the components of electronic media, even a micro-card as small as a fingernail that a suspect could easily hide.

From the article:

The 2-year-old rescue pooch nosed out a thumb drive that humans had failed to find during a search of Fogle's Indiana house in July, several weeks before he agreed to plead guilty to having X-rated images of minors and paying to have sex with teenage girls.


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  • (Score: 2) by http on Thursday August 27 2015, @04:00AM

    by http (1920) on Thursday August 27 2015, @04:00AM (#228445)

    It's long been the standard in USA law that you can't tell a defendant to do the work of the prosecution - this being the origin of their 5th amendment. IIRC, the Fricosu case tried an end-run around this to get the defedant to provide a password, but was smacked down by the 11th circuit panel.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @05:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @05:29AM (#228472)

    IIRC, the Fricosu case tried an end-run around this to get the defedant to provide a password, but was smacked down by the 11th circuit panel.

    Huh? [wikipedia.org] Looks to me like they ruled otherwise, even if it never went to the highest court. So, it appears as though they simply ignored the constitution.

    • (Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Thursday August 27 2015, @02:42PM

      by linuxrocks123 (2557) on Thursday August 27 2015, @02:42PM (#228593) Journal

      The original poster cited the wrong case. The correct reference is US v. Doe, which by itself doesn't help much since Doe is a pseudonym. It was, however, the 11th Circuit which ruled on this.