Tag: cell phone searches
By Jeralyn, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Wed Jun 25, 2014 at 12:17:26 PM EST
Tags: cell phone searches (all tags)
Posted on Wed Jun 25, 2014 at 12:17:26 PM EST
Tags: cell phone searches (all tags)
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in two cases today that police must get a warrant to search a cell phone after arrest.
Roberts noted in his opinion that cellphones "are now such a pervasive and insistent part of daily life that the proverbial visitor from Mars might conclude they were an important feature of human anatomy."
The cases are Riley v. California and U.S. v. Wurie. The opinion is here. Lyle Denniston at ScotusBlog has this analysis of the opinion.
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