text-messages

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-6546 Jorge Delgado-Rivera v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-privacy constitutional-rights digital-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure text-messages Does the Fourth Amendment prevent the government from using a person's sent text messages against them when those messages are obtained through an unc…
18-7130 Matthew G. Alden, Jr. v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-12-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-charges criminal-charges-text-messages criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt right-to-acquittal structural-error text-message-evidence text-messages Whether the government's use of a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard to prove that the defendant sent text messages violates the defendant's right…