Can Police Search Your Cell Phone Without a Warrant?
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled police don't need a search warrant to look at a cell phone's call list after arresting the phone's owner. As courts around the country grapple with the issue, tell us: is this reasonable search and seizure?
What's the difference between personal information and correspondence you have physically stored in your home, and similar information that's on your cell phone? And what should police have access to without a warrant? It's a question that courts across the nation are dealing with it and one that arose here in Massachusetts on Wednesday, when the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that police don't need a search warrant to look at the call list of a person's cell phone while searching that person's personal property after an arrest. However, in writing the court's opinion for Commonwealth vs. Demetrius A. Phifer, Justice Margot Botsford cited other court cases that raise questions about the extent that law enforcement officials can access …
millard Lewis
7:05 am on Sunday, March 31, 2013
To ^^john I'm in a wheel chair and pay for my own phone but that program was designed for people likeand the elderly but even if you were on welfare why should you lose your rights . I think IF YOU ARE AN AMERICAN you should look into what it says on the statue of LIBERTY. more ›