In a decision that examined the legality of FBI sting tactics on the dark web, a federal appeals court ruled that authorities improperly relied on an out-of-state warrant to search the computer of a Pennsylvania man suspected of possessing child pornography—but it still refused to suppress evidence from the search.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld the denial of defendant Gabriel Werdene’s suppression motion, holding that although a magistrate judge from the Eastern District of Virginia violated the Bensalem man’s Fourth Amendment rights by issuing the FBI a warrant out of her jurisdiction, because authorities acted in “good faith” in executing it, the evidence found on Werdene’s computer was admissible.