Heckenkamp

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 05-10322 v.  D.C. No.

JEROME T. HECKENKAMP, CR-03-20041-JW

Defendant-Appellant. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 05-10323 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CR-00-20355-JW

JEROME T. HECKENKAMP,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California James Ware, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 17, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed April 5, 2007

Before: William C. Canby, Jr., Michael Daly Hawkins, and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Thomas COUNSEL

Benjamin Coleman, San Diego, California, for the appellant.

Hanley Crew, Assistant United States Attorney, San Fran- cisco, California, for the appellee.

OPINION

THOMAS, Circuit Judge:

In this case, we consider whether a remote search of com- puter files on a hard drive by a network administrator was jus- tified under the “special needs” exception to the Fourth Amendment…