News Summary

• The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Google search data evidence retrieved by Denver police using a controversial keyword search warrant can be used to prosecute a teenager who has been charged with deadly arson.
• Gavin Seymour the teenager accused of arson had moved to suppress the evidence asking the court to consider whether keyword warrants violate constitutional rights.
• This was the first constitutional challenge to the legitimacy of keyword warrants which operate in the complete opposite manner of traditional warrants and do not require police to first identify a suspect before conducting a search.
• The court ruled that it didn t matter if keyword warrants are determined to be illegal Denver police qualified for a good faith exception for executing the warrant.