California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Coffman, F071854 (Cal. App. 2017):
Appellant contends that the warrant requirement for cell phone searches set forth in Riley should extend to parole searches or, alternatively, the search of a cell phone during a parole compliance search should require some additional quantum of reasonableness. In Riley, the high court determined that the search incident to arrest exception to the warrant requirement did not apply to cell phone searches. (People v. Macabeo (2016) 1 Cal.5th 1206, 1214-1215 (Macabeo).) The court decided whether to
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