Q: If a students phone is searched reasonably and can text be used to get other students searched?
Say a student was accused of selling drugs and they got searched (By School Staff) and they found nothing on the individual accused. However, they found text on the phone between the accused individual and his contacts, multiple contacts, and used those texts to search the other students at school? Keeping in mind that the text between the accused student and his contacts were not on the same date as the accused students search and seizure or sent during school hours, like a Saturday, is the search and questioning legal?
A: Did they have a search warrant for the phone? That is an important question. If someone has been charged with a crime, they need to get a private criminal defense attorney.
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