Current Event: 4th Amendment

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/supreme_court_dispatches/2014/04/fourth_amendment_cellphone_cases_at_the_supreme_court_the_justices_are_tech.html

WHO
The police

WHAT
Phone searches

WHERE
California and Boston, MA

WHEN
April 29, 2014

WHY
The fourth amendment has to do with prohibiting unreasonable searches and seizures as well as requiring a warrant with probable cause. Police still search phones when they believe their safety is threatened or that possible evidence on it could be destroyed. By looking through the phones of the arrested people, the police found evidence of additional larger crimes. The men would then be arrested for those crimes along with their traffic fines. Is it fair for phones to be searched during minor infractions? Phones have so much information and without a warrant people can definitely argue that it is against the fourth amendment for policemen to search it without one.

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