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Colorado District Court Examines Responsibility in Issuing Search Warrants Following $425,000 Settlement for Illegal Computer Search

Loaded on May 15, 2012

Filed under: Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Searches, Computer Searches, Police Searches, Censorship, Internet, Arrest Warrants. Location: Colorado.

A $425,000 settlement was reached in December, 2011 in a federal civil rights action against a prosecutor who approved an application for an illegal search. It may be the first ruling of its type.

Thomas Mink, as a student at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC), published an internet newsletter, …

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