Police determined one of the phones belonged to Richardson and got a warrant to search it. After a school resource officer broke up the fight, the officer grabbed Richardson’s backpack and discovered three cellphones, a handgun, and Richardson’s school ID. In this case, Richardson was involved in a fight at a local high school. State, the Maryland Court of Appeals recognized that “the privacy concerns implicated by cell phone storage capacity and the pervasiveness of cell phones in daily life do not fade away when police obtain warrants to search cell phones.” Maryland Sets Limits on Cell Phone Searches State from the Maryland Court of Appeals (Maryland state’s highest court). Morton from the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc (with the full court), and Richardson v. In August, two courts issued significant decisions that illustrate this divide- United States v. While some courts have constrained police searches to certain types of data on the phone, specific time periods, or limited the use of the data, other courts have authorized warrants that allow the police to search the entire phone. Riley didn’t articulate any standards that limit the scope of cell phone searches, and courts are taking different approaches. But what happens when police do get a warrant? Can they look at everything on your phone? With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans ‘the privacies of life’.” For this reason, the Court held that the police generally need a warrant to search one. California that a cell phone is “not just another technological convenience. The Supreme Court recognized in 2014 in Riley v. There is no dispute that cell phones contain a lot of personal information. 18 - in which to dismiss the charges or proceed with a new trial.This blog post was co-written with EFF Legal Intern Allie Schiele Phinn ordered a new trial, but prosecutors were given 30 days - until Oct. 16, Syed’s attorneys and prosecutors discussed the motion at a meeting in Phinn’s chambers. That followed a yearlong investigation and was two days after they notified the Lee family, the family’s motion says. Prosecutors moved to vacate Syed’s conviction on Sept. The Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office said it found evidence that should have been disclosed to Syed’s attorneys. “If the wrong person has been behind bars for 23 years, the Lee family and the rest of the world want to understand what new evidence has led to that conclusion.”īaltimore Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn overturned Syed’s conviction on Sept. Syed’s release from custody,” said the family’s attorney, Steve Kelly. “The Lee family is not seeking, through this motion or through the appeal, to impact Mr. He contends that the family was not given enough notice about a court hearing last month over whether Syed’s conviction should be overturned. 18 deadline by which prosecutors must decide whether to drop the charges against Syed or retry him for the killing. Young Lee, the brother of victim Hae Min Lee, asked the Maryland Court of Special Appeals in a six-page motion filed late last month to suspend further proceedings, including an Oct. (AP) - The family of the victim in the murder case chronicled in the first season of the “Serial” podcast has asked Maryland’s intermediate appellate court to halt Adnan Syed’s court case pending the family’s appeal of a judge’s overturning of Syed’s murder conviction.
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