The U.S. Supreme Court will be deciding whether or not police can conduct warrantless searches of cellphones upon arrest, according to a post by Anthony Lake on Gillen, Withers & Lake’s Federal Criminal Defense Blog.
Lake says that fourth amendment rights typically require warrants for any searches, but the exception to that is when someone is arrested. Then police have ability to search anywhere within the person’s “immediate control”—which prevents the person from accessing a weapon or destroying evidence. But as technology has been progressing, so too has the scope of these searches.
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