Constitutional Law—Search-Incident-to-Arrest Exception to Prohibition Against Warrantless Searches Inapplicable to Cell Phone Searches— Smallwood v. State, 113 So. 3d 724 (Fla. 2013)

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits searches and seizures conducted without prior approval by a judge or magistrate, but this general rule is subject to several exceptions. One such exception allows a police officer to search a person in the course of a lawful arrest. . .