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by fleitz 5469 days ago
Totally agree with you there, it's all going to depend on what's found in the houses. If they find evidence in the houses it's all going down.

A friend of mine a long time ago back in the 90s beat one of these things because they didn't have a warrant. Cops came to his parents place while he was out. Parent's let them in, they found a bunch of telco manuals, seized the computers, everything in the room was inadmissible because he was renting the room from his parents. He was a lucky guy. He also stopped bitching that his parents made him start paying rent.

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Why did that make the evidence inadmissible? Was it because it wasn't their room any more, and therefore the FBI didn't have a right to be there?
I feel that's pretty self evident in context. Your landlord doesn't have the right to let the cops in to search your place.