{"id":46021,"date":"2020-11-03T07:27:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T12:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46021"},"modified":"2020-11-03T07:54:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T12:54:16","slug":"wv-sw-not-needed-to-seize-cell-phone-from-a-person-even-when-its-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46021","title":{"rendered":"WV: SW not needed to seize cell phone from a person, even when it&#8217;s expected to be found"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The warrantless seizure of defendant\u2019s cell phone was reasonable. The officers didn\u2019t need to get a search warrant before taking it off his person. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courtswv.gov\/supreme-court\/docs\/fall2020\/18-0608-walker-p.pdf\">State v. Deem<\/a>, 2020 W. Va. LEXIS 706 (Oct. 20, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer\u2019s prior knowledge of suspect\u2019s description and dress at the time of the crime made the incriminating nature of defendant\u2019s sneakers immediately apparent. <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2017cr0194-134\">United States v. Thomas<\/a>, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 203456 (D.D.C. Nov. 2, 2020).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendants were on three years community control after a conviction for animal abuse at a shelter. A suspicionless probation search of the shelter was permitted. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/11\/2020\/2020-Ohio-5140.pdf\">State v. Brown<\/a>, 2020-Ohio-5140, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 3981 (11th Dist. Nov. 2, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The warrantless seizure of defendant\u2019s cell phone was reasonable. The officers didn\u2019t need to get a search warrant before taking it off his person. State v. Deem, 2020 W. Va. LEXIS 706 (Oct. 20, 2020). The officer\u2019s prior knowledge of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46021\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,51,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-plain-view","category-probationparole-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46029,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46021\/revisions\/46029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}