• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    What a terrible decision. That’s like saying if you have a house key they can search your house.

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      5 months ago

      There’s a reason they keep you focused on the first two amendments. Don’t want you realizing how comfortable they are with unregulated search and seizure.

      Honestly idk how the civil forfeiture can possibly be considered constitutional

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      5 months ago

      they did in fact use the data seized from his phone to find his house, then took his key and searched it

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      5 months ago

      There are finger print locks for doors available commercially too

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      5 months ago

      His attorney probably should have raised that objection in the first place. He should have objected based on the phone not being material to the search of the car. But if he didn’t raise the objection correctly during the initial trial, then he can’t raise the objection on the appeal either.