Stop, Frisk, and Give Me Your Cell Phone

By JASON M TENENBAUM – Recently, the legality of warrantless searches of cell phones incident to arrest has become a serious issue for defendants and privacy advocates around the nation. Analogizing searches of cell phones to searches of containers, the courts have usually upheld the warrantless search of a cell phone incident to arrest, whether they have been limited in scope to simply retrieving a phone’s telephone number, or as broad as searching the entire phone