{"id":61550,"date":"2025-07-26T10:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61550"},"modified":"2025-07-26T10:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T15:05:21","slug":"s-d-cal-def-doesnt-get-discovery-of-cell-phone-govt-hasnt-decrypted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61550","title":{"rendered":"S.D.Cal.: Def doesn&#8217;t get discovery of cell phone govt hasn&#8217;t decrypted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When the government seizes a cell phone under a warrant and the data is encrypted and it can\u2019t see it, it is not in \u201cpossession\u201d for Rule 16 discovery purposes. United States v. Mejia, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 142962 (S.D. Cal. July 25, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three controlled buys from defendant\u2019s house, the last 72 hours before the warrant, was probable cause. United States v. Kinsler, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 142793 (E.D. Tenn. July 25, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merely having a key to another\u2019s apartment wasn\u2019t enough for standing. Defendant doesn\u2019t even show that he was a guest there. United States v. Adams, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 140057 (W.D.N.Y. July 22, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stop was justified because of the expired inspection and overtinted windshield. Then the smell of marijuana was probable cause. United States v. Ford, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 141767 (D.V.I. July 24, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the government seizes a cell phone under a warrant and the data is encrypted and it can\u2019t see it, it is not in \u201cpossession\u201d for Rule 16 discovery purposes. United States v. Mejia, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 142962 (S.D. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61550\">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":[5,140,20,35,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-discovery","category-probable-cause","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61550","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=61550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61551,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61550\/revisions\/61551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}