No. 24-7500

Ramon Carlos Hernandez v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2025-06-25
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: cell-phone-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search particularity-requirement privacy-interest warrant-limitation
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure Privacy
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement place any limitations on the search of a cell phone beyond requiring that a search warrant limits law enforcement to searching for evidence of a particular offense and/or to searching within certain broad categories of device data?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

The Fourth Amendment ’s warrant requirement protects the contents of cell phones from search by law enforcement. Riley v. California , 573 U.S. 373, 403 (2014) . In the absence of Supreme Court guidance, it is unclear how the Fourth Amendment ’s particularity requirement applies in the context of cell phone searches . Federal circuits and state courts of last resort have reached diametrically opposed conclusions about what limitations the particularity requirement imposes . The question presented is: Does the Fourth Amendment’s particularity requirement place any limitations on the search of a cell phone beyond requiring that a search warrant limits law enforcement 1) to searching for evidence of a particular offense and/or 2) to searching within certain broad categories of device data, such as any messages, any internet history, and any call logs?

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-08-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-06-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 25, 2025)

Attorneys

Ramon Hernandez
Nicolas Robert HughesNicolas Hughes Law Firm, PLLC, Petitioner
Nicolas Robert HughesNicolas Hughes Law Firm, PLLC, Petitioner