US Supreme Court is Unanimous – Get a Warrant, A Cell Phone is Not Like a Pack of Cigarettes!
In 2011, the California Supreme Court ruled in People v. Diaz (2011) 51 Cal.4th 84, that law enforcement could search the data in cell phones without a warrant if the search was incident to arrest and the cell phone was immediately associated with the arrested individual. In essence, the California Supreme Court analogized the cell…