An Appeals Court has ruled the search warrants used to raid Kim Dotcom’s New Zealand mansion were legal. The decision is a setback in Dotcom’s battle against extradition to the US, where he is wanted for copyright charges in connection with MegaUpload. This latest ruling by the Appeals Court has overturned a previous decision by High Court Judge Helen Winkelmann, who deemed that the search warrant issued in 2012 was not sufficiently specific and illegal. The new ruling argues that the search warrants were reasonable and it was obvious, given Dotcom’s background, what they pertained to. “This view is reinforced by the fact that Mr. Dotcom was a computer expert who would have understood without any difficulty the references in the search warrant to his companies ... and the description of the various categories of electronic items,” the judges wrote in a 44-page ruling. The court harked back to comments made by the internet tycoon’s lawyer Paul Davison that Dotcoms “life and soul is on his computer.”
Posted on: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:36:42 +0000
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