{"id":55616,"date":"2023-08-17T08:11:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T13:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55616"},"modified":"2023-08-17T11:12:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:12:45","slug":"ca5-riley-does-not-apply-to-border-searches-of-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55616","title":{"rendered":"CA5: <em>Riley<\/em> does not apply to border searches of cell phones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The search of defendant\u2019s cell phone at the border was reasonable. The court will not apply Riley to border searches. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/22\/22-10772-CV0.pdf\">Malik v. United States Dep&#8217;t of Homeland Sec.<\/a>, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 21307 (5th Cir. Aug. 15, 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe undersigned concludes that Defendant abandoned the Hummer and thus had no expectation of privacy as to the vehicle. Defendant crashed the Hummer into another vehicle in front of 1938 South Newton, left the keys in the ignition, and fled on foot, thus abandoning the Hummer and relinquishing any expectation of privacy of the vehicle.\u201d United States v. Woodrow, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 142377 (W.D. Mo. July 21, 2023),* adopted, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 140250 (W.D. Mo. Aug. 11, 2023).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe encounter, however, transformed into a Terry stop when Officer Williams asked Pheap if he could search his pockets and instructed him to turn around and keep his hands up. Such an investigatory stop is constitutionally sound so long as Officer Williams had reasonable suspicion\u2014\u2018a particularized and objective basis for suspecting [Pheap] of criminal activity based on specific and articulable facts[.]\u2019 Dorsey, 517 F.3d at 395. \u2026 Considering the totality of the circumstances, Officer Williams had reasonable suspicion to suspect Pheap of criminal activity.\u201d Pheap v. City of Knoxville, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 142439 (E.D. Tenn. Aug. 15, 2023).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search of defendant\u2019s cell phone at the border was reasonable. The court will not apply Riley to border searches. Malik v. United States Dep&#8217;t of Homeland Sec., 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 21307 (5th Cir. Aug. 15, 2023). \u201cThe undersigned &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55616\">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":[48,10,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-border-search","category-cell-phones","category-stop-and-frisk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55616","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=55616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55618,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55616\/revisions\/55618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}