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[Opinion] Court tackles digital data privacy in Hibbing murder appeal
The court ruled the Facebook search warrant was overly broad but found the error harmless due to strong evidence, setting a precedent on digital message privacy in Minnesota.
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Court tackles digital data privacy in Hibbing murder appeal
ST. PAUL — An Iron Range murder defendant’s constitutional rights were violated in searches of his Facebook accounts, and the evidence should not have been allowed at trial, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. However, the errors were “harmless beyond a reasonable doubt” because there was more than sufficient evidence for a Hibbing jury to find Deshon Israel Bonnell guilty of the premeditated murder of Joshua Lavalley. Moreover, digital…
·Cherokee County, United States
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How private are Facebook messages? Minnesota Supreme Court opinion tackles murder, social media.
Deshon Bonnell will continue serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, but his appeal led the court to weigh, for the first time, the constitutional right to privacy with Facebook messages.
·Minneapolis, United States
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