cell phoneex ante restrictionsgood faith exceptionCriminal LawCriminal Law: Criminal ProcedureLaw & CourtsLast year, in Riley v. California, the Supreme Court required police to procure a warrant before searching a cell phone. Unfortunately, the Court's assumption that requiring search warrants would...
Alec Baldwin said Saturday that any suggestion he's not complying with the investigation into last fall's deadly shooting on a New Mexico film set is a lie. At issue is asearch warrant for Baldwin's cell phone, which authorities hope can provide information helpful in the probe. Baldwin was...
Keodara, the WA Court of Appeals ruled that a search warrant was overbroad in violation of the particularity requirement because it allowed police to search a cell phone “for items that had no association with any criminal activity and for which there was no probable cause whatsoever.” In ...
"Such searches, whether conducted manually or forensically, represent an extraordinary invasion of a traveler's privacy," according to theruling, which adds that rifling through the contents of someone's cell phone "is the best approximation government officials have for mindreading." The ruli...
cell phonewarrantlessGantFourth AmendmentThis brief essay rejects the argument made by some scholars that Arizona v. Gant's "reasonable to believe" framework should be applied to searches ofGershowitz, Adam MSocial Science Electronic Publishing
The administration relied in part on a 1979 Supreme Court decision that treated phone records differently than the conversation in a phone call, for which a warrant generally is required. In a case involving a single home telephone, the court said then that people had no expectation of ...
The Supreme Court ruled that police need a search warrant to review cell phone records that include data like a user's location.
House Bill 1869: Bars police from “searching, examining, extracting or duplicating” data from a cell phone without a search warrant or owner’s consent. Allows for “exigent circumstances.” Approved by the House on March 27. Approved by the Senate on April 7. Signed into law by the gove...
Do the police have the right to search through your phone without a warrant if you’re detained? It’s an issue that has divided the lower courts in the United States, and now the Supreme Court has announced it will hear two cases that will set the precedents for how mobile devices are...
John Whetsel, former sheriff of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, said the practice is not consistent among agencies because distracted driving is still a relatively new issue. Plus, laws vary between states and securing a search warrant for a phone can depend on an agency's resources, he said. ...