(June 25, 2016 at 11:37 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Nope, but it's probable cause for investigating me.
And if someone reports me because they've seen child porn on my computer, then if you legally seize my computer and find child porn search terms and indexing files on there but not the files, then yes, that is considered enough to hold someone from being in public, where they could, you know, harm a child.
But not for possession. For things like obstruction of justice and maybe contempt of court.
In US law, there is, of course, the presumption of innocence, but again, let's say that the guy is telling the truth, that is, he can't remember his password. Then what? Does he stay in jail "forever" over that fact? As far as being a threat to children, the guy is not accused of any child abuse, and even for child sexual offenders, their sentences are typically not life-without-parole sentences.
