California Supreme Court rules that police can search arrestee’s cell phone

In 2007, Gregory Diaz was arrested for attempting to sell drugs to a police informant. When he arrived at the police station his cell phone was seized and his text messages searched. The California Supreme Court recently held that the search was constitutional, comparing the messages in the cell phone to heroin tablets in a cigarette case. The dissenting opinion worried that this would give the police “carte blanche…to rummage at leisure through the wealth of personal and business information that can be carried on a mobile phone”.