Judge Denies Suppression Of Facebook Evidence In Armed Robbery Case

(June 8, 2018, 3:32 PM EDT) -- BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Finding that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had probable cause to believe that a defendant who is charged with Hobbs Act violations was associated with a gang implicated in criminal conspiracy, a New York federal judge on June 5 denied the defendant’s motion to suppress evidence obtained via warrant from his Facebook account, deeming the warrant sufficiently particularized and not in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (United States v. Sharod Liburd, No. 1:17-cr-00296, E.D. N.Y., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 94440)....