No. 21-6546

Jorge Delgado-Rivera v. Massachusetts

Lower Court: Massachusetts
Docketed: 2021-12-07
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: cell-phone-privacy constitutional-rights digital-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure text-messages
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2022-01-21
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Fourth Amendment prevent the government from using a person's sent text messages against them when those messages are obtained through an unconstitutional search of the recipient's cell phone?

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTION PRESENTED Does the Fourth Amendment prevent the government from using a person’s sent text messages against them when those messages are obtained through an unconstitutional search of the recipient’s cell phone? i

Docket Entries

2022-01-24
Petition DENIED.
2022-01-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/21/2022.
2022-01-05
Waiver of right of respondent Massachusetts to respond filed.
2021-11-29
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 6, 2022)

Attorneys

Jorge Delgado-Rivera
Carol Ann StarkeyConn Kavanaugh Rosenthal Peisch & Ford LLP, Petitioner
Carol Ann StarkeyConn Kavanaugh Rosenthal Peisch & Ford LLP, Petitioner
Massachusetts
Anna E. LumelskyMassachusetts Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Anna E. LumelskyMassachusetts Attorney General's Office, Respondent