{"id":60233,"date":"2025-02-22T15:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T20:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60233"},"modified":"2025-02-22T15:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T20:36:04","slug":"ms-police-cell-phone-search-as-extensive-as-prior-private-search-was-reasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60233","title":{"rendered":"MS: Police cell phone search as extensive as prior private search was reasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The warrantless search of defendant\u2019s cell phone was the same as a private search that already occurred, and it did not violate the Fourth Amendment. <a href=\"https:\/\/courts.ms.gov\/images\/Opinions\/CO182238.pdf\">Knight v. State<\/a>, 2025 Miss. LEXIS 51 (Feb. 20, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An NOLA officer seeing an apparent gun on his person in the French Quarter was reasonable suspicion. United States v. Hill, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30118 (E.D. La. Feb. 20, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers coming to a residence to serve legal papers could enter the driveway and look in the cars where they saw a sleeping person. The person in the car didn\u2019t have a reasonable expectation of privacy from being seen. A gun case reveals the contents. United States v. Phillips, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30069 (E.D. Ky. Feb. 20, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The warrantless search of defendant\u2019s cell phone was the same as a private search that already occurred, and it did not violate the Fourth Amendment. Knight v. State, 2025 Miss. LEXIS 51 (Feb. 20, 2025). An NOLA officer seeing an &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60233\">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":[19,43,18,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curtilage","category-private-search","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60233","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=60233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60234,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60233\/revisions\/60234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}