CRIMINAL PROCEDURE — FOURTH AMENDMENT — NINTH CIRCUIT LIMITS THE SCOPE OF WARRANTLESS CELL PHONE SEARCHES AT THE BORDER. — United States v. Cano, 934 F.3d 1002 (9th Cir. 2019).

The article presents a court case in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the border search exception allowed warrantless cell phone searches only when finding digital contraband. In the case U.S. v. Cano, suspected drug trafficker Miguel Cano claimed that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated when his phone was searched without a warrant. The circuit reversed Cano's conviction by a district court.