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Michigan Supreme Court: Police Must Limit Search of Cellphone Data to Uncovering Evidence of the Criminal Activity Alleged in Warrant

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2021 by Douglas Ankney published in Criminal Legal News March, 2021, page 28
Filed under: Searches - Cellphones/Computers/Internet, Searchable Metadata, Relevance. Location: Michigan.

by Douglas Ankney

The Supreme Court of Michigan held that police must limit a search of digital data from a cellphone in a manner reasonably directed to uncover evidence of the specified criminal activity alleged in the warrant.

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