Riley Cellphone Search Rule Is Slowly Sweeping The Nation

Law360, New York (September 26, 2014, 10:08 AM EDT) -- In June, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark Riley v. California opinion, which held that police officers cannot review the contents of a cellphone incident to an arrest absent a search warrant or exigent circumstances. Commentators opined that this bright-line rule would clear up the murky waters created by courts less decisive or intrepid and now, just three months later, the patience of our nation's courts in tolerating warrantless cellphone searches has already waned....

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