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That doesn't seem particularly difficult; prosecutors could just get a warrant to search his computer for it.


And which specific book would they we looking for?


They have his name, and where he studies, so they use the legal process (or Google) to get a list of his classes, and a list of the books used for those classes.

That doesn't seem particularly difficult for them to do. I doubt anyone would actually bother, but still, it's not tricky.




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