The Ninth Circuit has already ruled on this sort of situation.. the courts will and must revoke the police's qualified immunity against claims of excessive force. Let the lawsuits begin: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1332957.html

The whole point of the referenced article is that it is somehow a "problem" that data deleted (and intended to be deleted) by the owner of the SSD cannot be later recovered. Why should deleted data be recoverable? Will "police state" now require SSDs to stop this seemingly desirable behavior to ensure evidence be recoverable from an impounded device? I for one applaud the behavior of these new storage devices.