CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit found the lower court correctly did not suppress evidence brought against a man who was arrested in the course of an investigation of a dark-web child porn site known as “Playpen.” The FBI found the defendant’s residence and took his devices after obtaining an electronic search warrant from a Virginia federal court outside his district. The good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule means evidence derived from the warrant is admissible.
Read the ruling here.
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