People v. Abreu (Jesus)

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the warrantless seizure of a cellphone was justified because the officer seized the cellphone from a criminal suspect who had both the ability and the incentive to delete evidence from the cellphone
• observing that “any detention of property based on reasonable suspicion must be fairly analogous to a Terry stop, regardless of the item at issue”
• explaining that officers are required to have “specific, articulable, and objective facts”
• reasonable 15 suspicion would not justify warrantless seizure with delay of two days for police 16 to seek warrant to search cell phone
• “all the exigent-circumstances doctrine requires” is that an officer reasonably conclude that the defendant “had the ability and incentive to, after learning of the investigation . . ., destroy damning information contained on his phone”
• lies to law enforcement contribute to probable cause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).