Cops need warrant to search phones, say Ohio Supremes


First top-level US ruling on celly seizures

By Austin Modine in San FranciscoGet more from this author


Posted in Law, 16th December 2009 11:13 GMT

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Police officers must obtain a search warrant before snooping through the contents of a suspect's cell phone, Ohio's supreme court ruled on Tuesday.

The issue of whether mobile phones fall under US Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures appears never to have been weighed by any other US state supreme court or the federal Supremes.

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