Search of old computer files allowed by US appeals court

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Federal agents acted in good faith in executing a warrant to search a Connecticut accountant's records that had been seized two and a half years earlier, a US appeals court said, in a closely watched case testing how long the government can keep a criminal suspect's computer data. 

But the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Friday avoided the question of whether keeping the records that long violated Stavros Ganias' constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment.