Bright v. Sanford

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that an agent’s manual search of the defendant’s phone approximately an hour and a half after his arrest was reasonable under the border search exception
• rejecting argument that arrest renders border exception inapplicable by making it impossible for defendant or contraband to cross border
• approving post-arrest \investigatory\ border search of cell phone for information about larger smuggling organization and \more contraband entering into the country at that time\
• rejecting argument that arrest renders border exception inapplicable by making it impossible for defendant or contraband to cross border
• approving post-arrest “investigatory” border search of cell phone for information about larger smuggling organization and “more contraband entering into the country at that time”
• finding no legal authority or reasoning supporting the proposition that á border search is converted into a search incident to arrest once the arrest occurs at the border

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).