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degree to which the subpoena would reach private material of no pertinence to the grand jury’s
inquiry.” See In re Grand Jury Subpoena, JK-15-029, 828 F.3d at 1089. The Fourth Amendment
does not allow such a sweeping search, which would be nothing but a modern-day general
warrant. Jd. at 1088.' This Court should suppress all evidence the government obtained from the
subpoena (0 aT
B. The government’s subpoena to i was an unconstitutional
warrantless Fourth Amendment search.
Apart from its overbreadth, the subpoena violated the Fourth Amendment because it
amounted to a warrantless search without probable cause.
The Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. Katz, 389 U.S. at 351. Thus, “when
an individual ‘seeks to preserve something as private,’ and [her] expectation of privacy is ‘one
that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable,’ . . . that official intrusion into that private
sphere generally qualifies as a search and requires a warrant supported by probable cause.”
Carpenter, 138 S. Ct. at 2213 (quoting Smith, 442 U.S. at 740). This definition of a what
constitutes a “search” “seeks to secure ‘the privacies of life’ against ‘arbitrary power’” and “to
place obstacles in the way of a too permeating police surveillance.” Jd. at 2214 (quoting Boyd,
116 US. at 630; United States v. Di Re, 332 U.S. 581, 595 (1948)). A “grand jury is . . . ‘without
power to invade a legitimate privacy interest protected by the Fourth Amendment.’” United
States v. Thomas, 736 F.3d 54, 61 (1st Cir. 2013) (quoting United States v. Calandra, 414 U.S.
338, 346 (1974)).
‘Tt is for this reason that this Court should grant Maxwell’s Motion for Discovery of every grand
jury subpoena. Without being able to examine the grand jury subpoenas, Maxwell cannot evaluate
whether other subpoenas issued by the grand jury in connection with this case are unconstitutionally
overbroad, as the subpoena to Es.
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