Sentences with phrase «phone searches unconstitutional»

While in King, the Court minimized the privacy interest impacted by DNA collection, in Riley, the Court relied on the mere potential for privacy harm to hold warrantless cell phone searches unconstitutional.

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Vergara argued that the search of his phones was unconstitutional and that the resulting incriminating evidence from the forensic search should not be admitted at trial.

And I have also written about the unanimous opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in Riley v California, 573 US 1 (2014) where Chief Justice John Roberts held that a warrantless search and seizure of digital contents of a cell phone during an arrest violates the Fourth Amendment and is unconstitutional.