STATE v. K.C.

No. 4D15-3290.

207 So.3d 951 (2016)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. K.C., a child, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

December 7, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kimberly T. Acuña , Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Carey Haughwout , Public Defender, and Tatjana Ostapoff , Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


The State appeals an order granting K.C.'s motion to suppress. The State argued it did not need to obtain a warrant before searching an abandoned cell phone. We disagree and affirm, concluding that accessing the contents of the password-protected cell phone without a warrant violated the Fourth Amendment.

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