Headed to the Supreme Court?

This wikilog article is a draft, it was not published yet.

by: Ryan • July 30, 2013 • no comments

A brand new post from SCOTUSblog includes the following:

In a two-to-one ruling on May 17, in the case of Wurie v. United States (Circuit docket 11-1792), a First Circuit panel majority created a “bright-line rule” that the Fourth Amendment requires police to obtain a warrant before they engage an arrested person’s cellphone to find out what information it contains. The decision overturned a drug conviction of Brima Wurie, a Boston man who was found to be a drug dealer. Much of the evidence against him grew out of a search of his home, to which police had been led by what they found on his cellphone’s database.

You can find the opinion, the Justice Departments motion for an en banc rehearing and the denial of that motion at the SCOTUSblog post.