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Jan 19, 2018

Md. delegates’ bills would have police get warrants for cellphone tracking

ANNAPOLIS – Two Democratic delegates say they will not wait to see if the U.S. Supreme Court will rule that police need search warrants to track criminal suspects based on […]

Supreme Court Redistricting
Jan 8, 2018

Supreme Court lets stand Maryland convictions based on cellphone search

The Supreme Court on Monday let stand without comment a Maryland man’s robbery, assault and theft convictions based on evidence from his cellphone, which police had seized with a controversial […]

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Dec 6, 2017

DeWolfe takes cellphone-search case to Supreme Court

The mere contention that criminals use cellphones to memorialize their crimes cannot be sufficient to secure a warrant to search a suspect’s phone, Maryland’s public defender has stated in papers […]

Court of Appeals
Jun 15, 2017

Warrants for computer images don’t go ‘stale,’ Md. court says

Warrants for an illicit collection of images suspected of being stored on a computer never expire, as the photos can always be retrieved, Maryland court holds.