Stefanich v. Uffelman

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• holding that pre-trial detainee had an expectation of privacy within his cell sufficient to challenge an investigatory search ordered by a prosecutor
• search of a pretrial detainee’s cell, initiated by a prosecutor for the sole purpose of gathering information for a superseding indictment, violates the Fourth Amendment
• defendant retained “Fourth Amendment right—though much diminished in scope—” to challenge warrantless, investigatory search of cell ordered by prosecutor
• pretrial detainees retain Fourth Amendment privacy interest in their prison cells, although prison officials have right to inspect cells; distinguishing precedent holding that convicted inmates have no such right
• investigative search of detainee’s cell solely to obtain evidence in the pending case against him violated the Fourth Amendment because it did not serve a legitimate peno-logical interest
• detainee “retains an expectation of privacy within his cell sufficient to challenge the investigatory search ordered by the prosecutor” to get evidence to aid them “in laying additional indictments against a detainee”; search was unrelated to jail-security concerns

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