Judge Orders Gizmodo Search Warrant Unsealed

gyrogeerloose writes "The same judge who issued the warrant to search Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's apartment has now ordered it unsealed, ruling against the San Mateo County district attorney's office which had argued that unsealing the documents may compromise the investigation." You can read the entire affidavit here (PDF). It has a detailed description of the police investigation that led to the seizure of Chen's computers. It turns out Steve Jobs personally requested that the phone be returned, prompting Gizmodo's Brian Lam to try negotiating for a public acknowledgment that the phone was real. Apple was tipped off to the man who found/stole the prototype by his roommate.

Comments

Roommates

[Elgonn]

Before you let your roommates know you've possibly committed a felony make sure they won't turn you in.

Re:Roommates

[Monkeedude1212]

See, he asked the hypothetical "Would you help me bury a body" the week before and his room mate told him he would. So he thought he was in the clear.

He didn't know his room mate was a closet Apple Fanatic, and any chance to talk to Jobs and take him out to dinner would be worth it. ... Okay I added the dinner part.

Re:Roommates

[Anonymous Coward]

But if you need to move your true friend's body, you're on your own.

Re:The cop committed perjury or he's very bad at m

[Mordok-DestroyerOfWo]

Last I checked, $8500 - $5000 is $3500, not $2500.

Calculated on an Intel chip.

Re:Hrmm

[WrongSizeGlass]

Not to mention that you can't use a digital camera to "make a copy of the phone". It's a digital camera, not a replicator.

Hey, it's the new 4G iPhone - anything is possible!

Re:Public acknowledgement?

[E IS mC(Square)]

>> Gizmodo, you run a decent gadget blog

HA HA HA

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Re:Let me try to sum things up

[Anonymous Coward]

Reality distortion field.