Criminal
Sep. 21, 2017
Probationers’ rights to cellphone contents to be tested in court
A deluge of cases will soon force the state Supreme Court to address an increasingly important legal question: What privacy rights do probationers have to the contents of their cellphones?
The state Supreme Court may soon decide what privacy rights probationers have to the contents of their cellphones.
At least 50 cases asking that question are pending in California appellate courts and 12 more await review in the state high court. How the issue is decided will affect countless more cases in which evidence of probation violations — or other unrelated crimes — are obtained from probationers’ cellphones without probabl...
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