Legal Question in Criminal Law in Minnesota

Re: phone confiscation

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The answer depends on where the telephone was located and how it was seized. It would seem, however, that a defendant would have a very strong argument that any evidence adduced from reviewing texts on the phone without a search warrant should be suppressed.

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Re: phone confiscation

If police seize evidence unlawfully, that evidence may be suppressed as illegal in a criminal case. Much would depend upon the specifics of what happened, but I would normally argue that police must get a search warrant first, before searching the contents of a phone.