Le juge Shaw estime que la violation des libertés personnelles et de la vie privée est profonde et, en conséquence, par un raisonnement tordu, il se sert de ses constatations précédentes comme fondement de sa conclusion voulant que les effets néfastes de la violation de la vie privée l'emportent sur la question concernant la possession.
Judge Shaw believed that the invasion of personal freedom and privacy were profound and therefore by a circuitous bit of reasoning used his earlier findings as the basis for his findings that the detrimental effect of an invasion of privacy was a fact that overwhelmed the issue concerning possession.