A cellphone seized during an arrest can be a prosecutor’s dream and a defense attorney’s nightmare. It can reveal not just whom the owner has called, but also his or her whereabouts, bank records and more.
Jurisdictions are deeply divided on whether and to what extent police can search, without warrants, the phones they find on people they arrest. Two petitions filed this summer are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in. The justices have not yet scheduled the petitions for consideration at conference.
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