{"id":62391,"date":"2025-11-26T10:19:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62391"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:19:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:19:59","slug":"d-d-c-use-of-biometrics-to-access-a-cell-phone-is-not-testimonial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62391","title":{"rendered":"D.D.C.: Use of biometrics to access a cell phone is not testimonial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The use of biometrics to access a cell phone is not testimonial. <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2025cr0253-41\">United States v. Blythe<\/a>, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 231852 (D.D.C. Nov. 23, 2025) (interesting read).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just because defense counsel didn\u2019t appeal a losing Fourth Amendment issue doesn\u2019t make counsel ineffective. Scales v. United States, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 231972 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 24, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The child pornography warrant here was particular and based on probable cause. Moreover, the good faith exception applies. United States v. Githens, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 231954 (E.D. Cal. Nov. 24, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CI\u2019s information was meager at best, and there was no corroboration. Moreover, defendant\u2019s Franks showing is sufficient to get a hearing. Remanded. United States v. Felton, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 30789 (7th Cir. Nov. 25, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of biometrics to access a cell phone is not testimonial. United States v. Blythe, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 231852 (D.D.C. Nov. 23, 2025) (interesting read). Just because defense counsel didn\u2019t appeal a losing Fourth Amendment issue doesn\u2019t make &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62391\">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":[5,21,11,23,65,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-franks-doctrine","category-good-faith-exception","category-ineffective-assistance","category-particularity","category-privileges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62391","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=62391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62392,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62391\/revisions\/62392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}