Can you lie to a homeowner about your reason for searching their home?

The Search & Seizure Show by Anthony Bandiero

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How you doing, law enforcement officers. It's Anthony Bandiero. Here, Senior Legal instructor with Blue to Gold law enforcement training.

I just read a case and I want to share it with you because it's really has some really good teaching points. The case is pagane Gonzalez V. Marino, it's out of the First Circuit. And essentially what happened here is this. FBI agents were interested in a suspect because they believed that he had child pornography on his laptop. Instead of getting a search warrant, they came up with a clever idea. They went to his house, and they said, Hey, your laptop is sending malicious signals to Washington, DC. But guess what? We're with the government; we're here to help, we'll fix it for free. If you if you l ... 

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