4th Circuit: Forensic Search Of Smartphone Did Not Violate 4th Amendment

(May 22, 2018, 1:35 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — Border agents’ discovery of weapons in an airline passenger’s luggage created sufficient individualized suspicion to justify a forensic examination of his smartphone without violating the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel majority ruled May 9, finding that a trial court properly declined to suppress evidence obtained from the search (United States v. Hamza Kolsuz, No. 16-4687, 4th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 12147)....