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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Warrantless Review of Mobile Phone Texts incident to Arrest OK

Fifth Circuit Senior Justice Patrick E. Higgenbotham, writing for a panel including Justices Jerry Edwin Smith and Jennifer Walker Elrod, affirmed the conviction of a defendant of whom a Secret Service agent had reviewed-- without a warrant--text messages incident to the defendant's arrest.