Supreme Court: Want to Search a Cellphone? “Get a Warrant.”

Something seems very wrong here, because the report is that the Supreme Court has unanimously held in Riley v. California that the police need to get a warrant before rummaging through the cellphone of someone they’ve arrested.

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The opinion, apparently written by someone posing as Justice Roberts, is quite broad and there’s no reason it shouldn’t apply to laptop computers, for example.

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