https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/06/rileys-best-line/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:07:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/06/rileys-best-line/comment-page-1/#comment-294021 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:07:38 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=46789#comment-294021 I thought the whole idea of these warrantless searches of someone being arrested was for “Officer Safety” – to make sure the arrestee didn’t have a concealed knife, etc on their person or a razor blade in their wallet or purse. How can searching a cell phone have anything to do with the safety of an officer? Kind of hard to conceal a knife or razor blade in the electrons of the phone’s memory. It didn’t pass the smell test – score one for the Citizenry.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/06/rileys-best-line/comment-page-1/#comment-293828 Sun, 29 Jun 2014 04:55:10 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=46789#comment-293828 The suspect might have a picture of a gun in his cellphone. This could pose an imediate psychological threat to the policeman, and would interfere in a proper interrogation and arrest. It would provide valuable clues to the suspects mental state and the possible need to use handcuffs.
(sarc)

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