Supreme Court rules warrant required to search arrestee's cell phone

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Wednesday that police officers must obtain a warrant before searching a person's cell phone data, even at the time of arrest. In Riley v. California and United States v. Wurie [SCOTUSblog backgrounders], the court considered the question of whether a search of cell phone data without a warrant violates a person's Fourth Amendment [text] rights. Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the opinion for a unanimous court:Modern cell phones are not...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/06/supreme-court-rules-warrant-required-to-search-arrestees-cell-phone.php

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