Who Can Attend?: Students – All, Faculty, Staff

Search & Seizure of Computers and Digital Evidence for Trial and Appellate Judges Conference: This two day program focuses on the search and seizure of computers and digital evidence, based on a grant from Mississippi State University. Offered in Oxford only.

The learning objectives of this course include the following:
(a) understanding of the sources and types of digital evidence;
(b) examination of the principal approaches courts take to the search and seizure of digital evidence;
(c) detailed examination of the application of Fourth Amendment principles to various locations of digital evidence, including computers, cell phones, remote storage, and the Internet;
(d) examination of Fourth Amendment applicability doctrines, including standing, voluntary exposure, and the private search doctrine;
(e) examination of Fourth Amendment satisfaction doctrines, including warrant issuance and review, search incident to arrest, and probable cause;