US Cases - Interpretation regarding seizure

US Cases - Interpretation regarding seizure
Two interesting US cases posted at Susan Brenner, Professor of Law, blog highlighting the complexity in interpretation regarding seizure, relevant to these cases were Blackberry devices.

http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2010/10/blackberry-seized-unlawfully.html
http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2010/10/blackberry-seized-lawfully.html

US Case: Daubert and Cell Site Analysis Maps

US Case: Daubert and Cell Site Analysis MapsI having been an advocate, as many of you know, for many years for the use in evidence of network operator generated analogue and digital cellular radio maps (eg best server plots/density maps & single cell prediction plots/density maps). That is because they are a composite compiled from collection of visible and discrete detail relevant to the

Mobile Phone is not a 'Closed Container' Part 2

Mobile Phone is not a 'Closed Container' Part 2

I mentioned in the thread " Mobile Phone is not a 'Closed Container' " that there was more to this disucssion:

http://trewmte.blogspot.com/2010/02/mobile-phone-is-not-closed-container.html

When any digital exhibit produces evidence it is normally presented in a computer document format. The Courts looks at the defendant's behaviour in relation to

Mobile Phone is not a 'Closed Container'

Mobile Phone is not a 'Closed Container'. There has recently been an important judgment in an Ohio Supreme Court that ruled a mobile phone is not covered by the status that a mobile phone is a "closed container" for the purposes of searches; thus mobile phones require a "warrant" prior to searching their (mobile phones') contents. The ruling also refers to the "unique nature of cell phones"...A