Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin

In Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), this Court held that, because “[c]ell phones . . . place vast quantities of personal information literally in the hands of individuals,” id. at 386, police may not search the contents of such phones incident to arrest without a warrant or a “case-specific exception[]” to the warrant requirement, id. at 401-02. Is the Fourth Amendment’s ban on general warrants violated by a warrant broadly authorizing search of the “contents” of a cell phone for unspecified “evidence” of a particular crime where neither the warrant nor the supporting affidavit identifies any particular evidence to be sought or any nonconclusory explanation for why any such evidence is thought to either exist on the phone or be evidence of the offenses identified in the warrant?