{"id":61813,"date":"2025-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61813"},"modified":"2025-09-02T08:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:09:12","slug":"ma-123-day-delay-between-cell-phone-seizure-and-sw-was-unreasonable-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61813","title":{"rendered":"MA: 123-day delay between cell phone seizure and SW was unreasonable here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Balancing the interests involved, the trial court found that the 123-day delay between seizure of defendant\u2019s cell phone and seeking a search warrant for it was unreasonable. On de novo review, \u201cThat notwithstanding, there is no Massachusetts precedent upholding as reasonable anything remotely approaching the 123-day delay in the present case.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/doc\/commonwealth-v-diaz-ac-g23p1462\/download\">Commonwealth v. Diaz<\/a>, 2025 Mass. App. LEXIS 78 (Aug. 29, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a wire and tax fraud case, \u201cIt was reasonable to believe that the computers\u2014which the affidavit stated contained Park Southern&#8217;s financial and accounting records\u2014would provide corroborating evidence of those crimes. J.A. 238, 254. Other information cited in the warrant, including statements about Scott&#8217;s embezzlement and allegations of financial mismanagement, further supported probable cause of Scott&#8217;s tax fraud, J.A. 249, reinforcing the inadequacy of Scott&#8217;s challenges to probable cause.\u201d Besides, he consented to the search. United States v. Scott, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 22247 (D.C. Cir. Aug. 29, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plain feel of a loose pills in a fanny pack during arrest justified its search. United States v. Childs, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 168214 (D.N.J. Aug. 27, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balancing the interests involved, the trial court found that the 123-day delay between seizure of defendant\u2019s cell phone and seeking a search warrant for it was unreasonable. On de novo review, \u201cThat notwithstanding, there is no Massachusetts precedent upholding as &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61813\">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":[5,12,38,51,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-computer-searches","category-nexus","category-plain-view","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61813","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=61813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61823,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61813\/revisions\/61823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}