{"id":42709,"date":"2020-02-29T09:40:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T14:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42709"},"modified":"2020-02-29T09:42:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T14:42:05","slug":"42709","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42709","title":{"rendered":"TX3: Cell phone in evidence room from 2009 could be searched with SW after def charged with 2018 capital murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant had a cell phone seized from him in 2009 that remained in the police evidence room. After another crime, this time a capital murder, the phone was searched with a warrant in 2018. The delay wasn\u2019t unreasonable because defendant never asserted recovery of the phone. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=08c7b61c-0901-4105-8b15-02ca7dcaa990&amp;MediaID=3a2d234b-68e6-4da1-bd8e-b2e7ec711c64&amp;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&amp;DT=Opinion\">Harmel v. State<\/a>, 2020 Tex. App. LEXIS 1584 (Tex. App. \u2013 Austin Feb. 26, 2020).<br \/> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight day delay from NYSP taking possession of defendant\u2019s devices for suspected child pornography and then seeking a search warrant wasn\u2019t an unreasonable delay. United States v. Schohn, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 32195 (W.D. N.Y. Jan. 2, 2020),* adopted, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31222 (W.D.N.Y. Feb. 24, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant had a cell phone seized from him in 2009 that remained in the police evidence room. After another crime, this time a capital murder, the phone was searched with a warrant in 2018. The delay wasn\u2019t unreasonable because defendant &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42709\">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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staleness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42711,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42709\/revisions\/42711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}