United States v. Ivey, No. 23-1706 (8th Cir. 2024)
Annotate this CaseThe United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a lower court's decision to deny defendant Ki-Jana Kolajuan Ivey's motion to suppress evidence retrieved from his cell phone. Ivey, a convicted felon, was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm following a traffic stop in which officers discovered a gun under his seat. Officers also obtained a warrant to search Ivey's phone, finding photos and videos of him with other firearms. Ivey argued that the search of his phone was not supported by probable cause and that the warrant was too general, violating the Fourth Amendment. The court affirmed the lower court's decision, finding that the warrant was supported by probable cause given the circumstances of the traffic stop, Ivey's possession of the phone, and his prior social media activity displaying firearms. Additionally, the court concluded that the warrant was sufficiently particular, as it specified the phone to be searched and the information to be seized. The court noted that the presence of unrelated information on Ivey's phone did not transform the warrant into an impermissible general warrant.
Court Description: [Colloton, Author, Smith, Chief Judge, and Loken, Circuit Judge] Criminal case - Criminal law. The affidavit provided in support of a warrant to search defendant's phone adequately established probable cause that the phone would contain evidence of a firearms offense; the warrant was sufficiently particular in that it identified the phone to be searched and the evidence to be seized. [ January 25, 2024 ]
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