An en banc Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that evidence derived from a police officer casually asking a suspect to see his cellphone without an explanation of the suspect’s rights regarding the subsequent “data dump” was correctly suppressed in the criminal case.

The court affirmed its pervious ruling upholding a Butler County judge’s decision to suppress evidence obtained from defendant Tod Gallagher’s cellphone in his prosecution on attempted rape and related charges.

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