United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
788 F.3d 345 · 2015
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2251 (Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996)
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Franks v. Delaware · United States v. Ventresca · Maryland v. Pringle · 133 S. Ct. 1050 - Florida v. Harris
Most-quoted passages
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“[traditionally, law enforcement officers seek to detect child pornography offenses by manually sending out search queries for illicit material over P2P [peer to peer] networks, one-by-one. CPS automates this process by canvassing these public P2P networks, identifying files that contain child pornography, cataloguing this information, and providing law enforcement officers with a list of the online users who are sharing these files over P2P networks.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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