forensic-search

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-7914 Danny Ray Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-search custodial-interrogation digital-privacy forensic-evidence forensic-search fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether an officer must expressly state that he is seeking consent for a forensic, not just a manual, search of a cell phone
20-6445 Cristofer Jose Gallegos-Espinal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-form forensic-search fourth-amendment government-surveillance perpetuity riley-precedent riley-v-california Whether verbal consent to 'look through' a cell phone, followed by written consent on an outmoded pre-Riley consent form, permits the government to pe…
19-1221 Derrick Lucius Williams, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied border-search circuit-split customs digital-device forensic-search fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion warrant-exception Whether government agents need reasonable suspicion to conduct a warrantless forensic search of a digital device at the border