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Professor Boyne Talks with WRTV about Search Warrant for Social Media Accounts in Toddler Death Case
04/22/2016
Search warrants for social media accounts have been granted to police investigating the death of 1-year-old Shaylyn Ammerman in Owen County, Indiana. Professor Shawn Boyne spoke with Indianapolis television station WRTV for a story on the issue that was broadcast April 21.
The request indicates that investigators don’t think they know all there is to know about what happened, Professor Boyne said. Facebook records for nine people connected to the child, including her mother, father, paternal grandmother, and the man accused in her death, have been sought.
Professor Boyne is a former prosecuting attorney and practiced for several years as a defense attorney before pursuing her career in academia. She is a scholar of comparative law who has previously presented her work at Yale University, the University of Virginia, and Washington & Lee's School of Law, as well as in Austria, Germany, and England. Professor Boyne teaches a seminar in Comparative National Security Law at IU McKinney and serves as co-chair of the Global Crisis Leadership Forum. She is one of the founding members of the Comparative Law Professors blog.
