Supreme Court of California

In a conviction of defendant for selling Ecstasy, court of appeals' affirmance of the trial court's denial of a motion to suppress evidence of text messages in defendant's cell phone, is affirmed, as under the United States Supreme Court's binding precedent, the law enforcement officers' search of the text message folder of defendant's cell phone taken from his person after the arrest, approximately 90 minutes after lawfully arresting defendant and transporting him to a detention facility, is valid as being incident to a lawful custodial arrest.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/03/2011
• Published 01/03/2011

Judges

• CHIN

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lyn A. Woodward, Edmund G. Brown, Jr.