In our digital age, new criminal fact patterns arise every day. Our nation’s federal and state appellate courts confront daily the realities of modern day smart phone technology in the context of warrantless searches and seizures of personal information. The...
Month: July 2013
Cell Phone Location Data Warrantless Searches
Last year I wrote an article that fore told of the July 30, 2013 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision ruling constitutional warrantless applications for historical and real time cell phone location data....
Summer 2013 DUI Update
So far this summer, Pennsylvania’s Superior Court issued two very significant DUI decisions. The first ruling was handed down the case of Commonwealth v. Musau. The second decision was presented in Commonwealth v. Barker.In Musau the trial court found Musau...