he US Supreme Court issued a key ruling in favor of Fourth Amendment rights in the digital age June 25, finding unanimously that police in most cases need a warrant before searching the cell phone or personal electronic device of an arrestee. High Times
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Federal Court: Warrant Needed for Cell Phone Tracking
In what could turn out to be a landmark case, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta ruled June 11 that police must obtain a warrant to get a person's cell phone location history from the service provider. Police conducting a robbery investigation… High Times
DEA Pays $4.1 Million to Student Forgotten in Cell for Five Days
The government agreed to pay Daniel Chong, aUCSan Diego engineering student, $ 4.1 million in advance of a $ 20-million dollar lawsuit. Last April, DEA agentsdetained Chong as part of a raidconducted on an apartment off campus. Chong w… High Times
DEA to Pay $4.1 Million to Man Forgotten in Cell
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The DEA has agreed to pay $ 4.1 million to San Diego college student Daniel Chong after rounding him up in a drug sweep last year and then forgetting him in a holding cell for five days without food or water. Chong attorney Eugene Iredale announced Tuesday that he reached a settlement with […]