Vol. 40 No. 17 DESPITE DEFENDANT RETAINING A PRIVACY INTEREST IN ABANDONED IPHONE, BECAUSE SUBSEQUENT SEARCH WAS WARRANT-BASED AND REASONABLE, THERE WAS NO FOURTH AMENDMENT VIOLATION
In United States v. Hunt,[1]the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that in considering whether the abandonment principle applies to a person’s cell phone, courts should analyze the intent to abandon the digital device separately from the intent to abandon the device’s data—and not conflate the two. Finding that the defendant here did not abandon […]