SAN FRANCISCO — In a win for civil liberties advocates, the California Supreme Court on Monday ruled that police officers violated constitutional safeguards when they searched a man’s smartphone and turned up images of child pornography after stopping him for a minor traffic infraction.
Ruling unanimously, the seven-member court said that the search was unjustified because the man, Paul Macabeo, was not under arrest or in the process of being arrested when officers stopped him for riding his bicycle past a stop sign in Torrance, California, late at night in July 2012.
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