Rigby5
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- Apr 23, 2017
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It proves theft. So the evidence is stolen. That puts a taint on it's credibility.
It is not theft if the files were part of the legal takeover of ownership of the laptop.
Doesn't matter if the ownership of the files was transferred or not, because the police to not need to own the files in order to use them as evidence.