FourthAmendment.com has details on a case where a computer was searched for child pornography subject to a probation condition:
Probation search condition that permitted search of work place computer was not unreasonable and furthered the purposes of probation. United States v. Proctor, 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 11789 (3d Cir. June 2, 2008) (unpublished). Curiously, in a warrantless search case, the court implicitly puts the burden in the defense to show that the search was unreasonable rather than the government to show it was reasonable. But, at bottom, it ulimately isn't that simple because the search was found valid before the court said he cannot show it was was not...
The burden-shifting aspect is an interesting wrinkle, but overall probation conditions are usually more properly tailored than the one size fits all approaches typically adopted by legislatures.
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