By North Carolina Judicial Branch
State v. Terrell
Motion to suppress; Fourth Amendment; applying the private-search exception to the warrant requirement to an electronic storage device; whether a follow-up police search for potential contraband data on a privately searched thumb drive was lawful under the private-search doctrine; whether excising tainted allegations from an application still supplied probable cause to issue the search warrant.
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Motion to suppress; Fourth Amendment; applying the private-search exception to the warrant requirement to an electronic storage device; whether a follow-up police search for potential contraband data on a privately searched thumb drive was lawful under the private-search doctrine; whether excising tainted allegations from an application still supplied probable cause to issue the search warrant.