The following excerpt is from United States v. Galpin, 720 F.3d 436 (2nd Cir. 2013):
[a]ny and all computing or data processing software, and any electronic storage device for any evidence substantiating a registration violation, without providing the forensic examiner with any guidance or limitations as to what kinds of files might be relevant. Warrant 1. While those provisions describe the places to be searched, they do not describe with adequate particularity the items to be seized by their relation to designated crimes. United States v. Williams, 592 F.3d 511, 519 (4th Cir.2010) (emphasis added). The third paragraph of the warrant particularizes the items that the government may seize, but nothing in the current record explains how the vast majority of those items e.g., access numbers, passwords, and PINS relating to voice mail systems, computing or data processing literature (including written materials), audio or video cassette tape recordings, books, and magazinescould possibly reveal evidence that Galpin possessed or used an unregistered internet account or communication identity.
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