Police needed warrant to search arrestee’s cellphone 
Published: May 21, 2013
Tags: cellphone, Fourth Amendment, search and seizure, search incident to arrest
Police needed a warrant to search the contents of a cellphone seized from a defendant arrested for suspected drug dealing, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in reversing a conviction.
Police needed warrant to search arrestee’s cellphone
Published: May 6, 2013
Tags: cellphone, Fourth Amendment, search and seizure, warrantless search
Police were required to obtain a search warrant before examining the contents of an arrestee’s cellphone, the Florida Supreme Court has ruled in reversing a robbery conviction.
School officials couldn’t read student’s text messages
Published: April 2, 2013
Tags: cellphone, civil rights, Fourth Amendment, search and seizure
Public school officials needed reasonable suspicion in order to read text messages on a cellphone confiscated from a student, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in reversing summary judgment in a civil rights case.
Benchmarks: Suspect’s cellphone provides motive for murder
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: March 20, 2013
Tags: cellphone, felony murder, motive
A suspect in the shooting of a robbery victim made the mistake of making a cellphone video proclaiming his greed.
Yesterday, a Missouri court decided that the video was properly admitted to convict him of felony murder.
Benchmarks: Cellphone-using driver guilty of negligent homicide
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: February 12, 2013
Tags: cell phone, cellphone, distracted driving, negligent homicide
Lynn Dion will have plenty of time to learn how to live without a cellphone glued to her ear.
That’s because she’ll be spending the next 18 to 36 months in a New Hampshire prison for running down and killing a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
Courts divided over cellphone search cases
By:
Kimberly Atkins
Published: February 1, 2013
Tags: cellphone, Circuit Breaker, Fourth Amendment, plain view doctrine, probable cause, search and seizure, technology
The question of whether the warrantless search of a cellphone’s content violates the Fourth Amendment has divided state and federal courts, making it one of the thorniest legal issues around.
Study revives debate on cell phone, cancer link
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: September 14, 2009
Tags: cellphone, product liability
The wireless industry has been telling us for years that cellphones don’t cause brain cancer, but a new study raises doubts.
Tighter cell phone laws might face static
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: August 13, 2009
Tags: cellphone, distracted driving, text messaging
“Distracted driving” is becoming a cause celebre, with more states banning texting and some legislators pondering whether to bar cellphone use by drivers outright. The District and six states require hands-free devices. Texting has been banned in the District of Columbia and 17 states, and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he will convene a meeting Sept. 30 to formulate “concrete steps … to make drivers think twice about taking their eyes off the road for any reason.”
Mich. Supreme Court adopts jury cell phone rule
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: July 2, 2009
Tags: cellphone, jury instructions
Michigan jurors will soon be instructed not to use cell phones or other electronic devices at trial or during deliberations except during breaks. The state Supreme Court on Tuesday adopted a statewide rule governing jurors’ use of communication devices.
