In the legal information institute website, they bring up one case in Wurie vs the United states in which Brima Wurie was arrested of having 2 packs of cocaine. Officers found the phone and due to his locations of where he had called from and his accounts they traced the address of the suspect back to the home in which they found many more drugs and ammunition. Later, Wurie was convicted of those charges. However, later appealed on the grounds of the 4th amendment saying that the police didn’t have probable cause to search through Wurie’s phone. In the article, it also mentions, “The Court of Appeals noted that information stored on cellular phones is of a kind otherwise off-limits to police searches incident to an arrest.” (Rosales Para. 8). This shows that the court felt that the officer had no reason to go through the phone of the suspect because there wasn’t any need to search for it due to the reason of
In the legal information institute website, they bring up one case in Wurie vs the United states in which Brima Wurie was arrested of having 2 packs of cocaine. Officers found the phone and due to his locations of where he had called from and his accounts they traced the address of the suspect back to the home in which they found many more drugs and ammunition. Later, Wurie was convicted of those charges. However, later appealed on the grounds of the 4th amendment saying that the police didn’t have probable cause to search through Wurie’s phone. In the article, it also mentions, “The Court of Appeals noted that information stored on cellular phones is of a kind otherwise off-limits to police searches incident to an arrest.” (Rosales Para. 8). This shows that the court felt that the officer had no reason to go through the phone of the suspect because there wasn’t any need to search for it due to the reason of