{"id":64883,"date":"2026-09-26T10:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64883"},"modified":"2026-09-26T10:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:26:25","slug":"mn-risk-of-destruction-of-evidence-was-exigency-for-seizure-of-cell-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64883","title":{"rendered":"MN: Risk of destruction of evidence was exigency for seizure of cell phone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The exigency for seizure of defendant\u2019s cell phone pending getting a warrant was risk of destruction of evidence. <a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/law-library-stat\/archive\/supct\/2026\/OPA241417-092326.pdf\">State v. Laflex<\/a>, 2026 Minn. LEXIS 592 (Sep. 23, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furtive movements add to reasonable suspicion. Ex parte Lucio, 2026 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 905 n. 303 (Sep. 24, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was reasonable suspicion for defendant\u2019s detention aside from the traffic stop based on collective knowledge he was attempting to purchase drugs. The dog sniff thereafter was reasonable. United States v. French, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 217063 (E.D. La. Sep. 24, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US Postal Inspectors checked the addresses on the package which proved likely bogus, and that gave reasonable suspicion to remove it from the mail stream for a dog sniff. State v. Wescott, 2026 Del. Super. LEXIS 446 (Sep. 18, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exigency for seizure of defendant\u2019s cell phone pending getting a warrant was risk of destruction of evidence. State v. Laflex, 2026 Minn. LEXIS 592 (Sep. 23, 2026). Furtive movements add to reasonable suspicion. Ex parte Lucio, 2026 Tex. Crim. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64883\">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":[5,27,3,99,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-dog-sniff","category-emergency-exigency","category-mail-and-packages","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64883","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=64883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64884,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64883\/revisions\/64884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}