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Text messages inadmissible in drug trial (access required)

Published: September 30, 2011

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Prosecutors in a drug trial should not have been permitted to introduce text messages recovered from the defendant’s cell phone, a Pennsylvania appellate court has ruled in reversing a conviction.

2009: A year of high-tech ethical pitfalls (access required)

By: Correy Stephenson
Published: January 8, 2010

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Ethics got high-tech in 2009. From texting clients to virtual law practice to posting questions on a listserv, lawyers struggled with the collision of professional responsibility and the ever-expanding world of technology.

Court considers privacy of texts on pagers (access required)

By: Kimberly Atkins
Published: December 14, 2009

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The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether police officers have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the text messages they send and receive on their city-issued pagers.

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