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Search Warrant Affidavit: Apple Accounts

Scan of the first page of a legal document headed IN THE FOURTH DISTRICT COURT and AFFIDAVIT FOR SEARCH WARRANT, filed in and for Utah County, State of Utah, requesting a search warrant for specified Apple accounts

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This is the first page of an AFFIDAVIT FOR SEARCH WARRANT filed in the Fourth District Court in and for Utah County, State of Utah. The header block establishes the court and jurisdiction, and the body opens the affiant's sworn request for a warrant directed at specified Apple Inc. accounts.

Warrant affidavits are among the few primary documents the public gets to read in a case that is otherwise pre-trial and partly sealed. They matter here because the digital evidence is the case: investigation records show the Utah State Bureau of Investigation also sought records from Discord relating to usernames including Craftopia, Gamin and The Corruption, and prosecutors confirmed in court that a Cellebrite extraction was performed on Lance Twiggs' phone. Set against that is a prosecution filing stating the state did not intend to offer evidence obtained through forensic extractions of the seized electronics, a tension researchers have repeatedly flagged.

Read this page for the scope of what was requested rather than for conclusions, and continue with the companion affidavit pages elsewhere in this cluster that itemize the electronics seized. Related written analysis is at Robinson Phone and Devices, Phone Extraction and Discovery and Brady Disputes.

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