{"id":61735,"date":"2025-08-19T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61735"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:10:47","slug":"nj-seeing-def-enter-phone-passcode-in-officers-presence-wasnt-unreasonable-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61735","title":{"rendered":"NJ: Seeing def enter phone passcode in officer&#8217;s presence wasn&#8217;t unreasonable seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Officer seeing defendant enter cell phone passcode violated no reasonable expectation of privacy or Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njcourts.gov\/system\/files\/court-opinions\/2025\/a2905-22.pdf\">State v. Ellison<\/a>, 2025 N.J. Super. LEXIS 60 (Aug. 19, 2025). Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/trials\/articles\/2378633\/nj-panel-upholds-use-of-phone-passcode-seen-by-police\">NJ Panel Upholds Use Of Phone Passcode Seen By Police<\/a> &#8211; Law360<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State wrongful death action was not pled as a Fourth Amendment violation and couldn\u2019t be removed. The fact a prior claim under 1983 was nonsuited didn\u2019t make this a federal claim. Perkins v. Frye, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 21090 (8th Cir. Aug. 19, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s parole stop did not comply with state law, but it was still reasonable for Fourth Amendment purposes. There was reasonable suspicion defendant committed two parole violations. United States v. Doster, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 159733 (D. Mont. Aug. 18, 2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officer seeing defendant enter cell phone passcode violated no reasonable expectation of privacy or Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. State v. Ellison, 2025 N.J. Super. LEXIS 60 (Aug. 19, 2025). Update: NJ Panel Upholds Use Of Phone Passcode Seen By &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61735\">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":[45,5,24,114,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-cell-phones","category-consent","category-privileges","category-probationparole-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61735","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=61735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61743,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61735\/revisions\/61743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}