District Attorney Critiques Gizmodo Emails In iPhone 4 Prototype Case 155
lee1 writes "After the police broke in to a Gizmodo editor's home and collected emails from computers found there as part of the investigation of the stolen 2010 iPhone prototype, the San Mateo District Attorney's office petitioned the court to withdraw the search warrant, because it violated a law intended to protect journalists. Nevertheless, the DA, rather than apologize for the illegal search and seizure, issued a critique of the seized emails, commenting that they were 'juvenile' and that 'It was obvious that they were angry with the company about not being invited to ... some big Apple event. ... this is like 15-year-old children talking.''"
Re:lawsuit (Score:3, Informative)
"Usually?" It's happened once.
At least twice: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/08/apple-iphone-5-prototype-lost-in-san-francisco-bar/ [go.com]
Stephen "I Know Nothing" Wagstaffe (Score:5, Informative)
"I don't know if Apple is on the [REACT] steering committee," Stephen Wagstaffe told Yahoo! News [yahoo.com] when asked about a link between Apple and the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT) Task Force that entered Jason Chen's home and seized four computers and two servers as evidence in a felony investigation. Documents revealed that Apple did indeed sit on REACT's steering committee [flickr.com], which provided 'direction and oversight' to the law enforcement agency.