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191002P.pdf 03/26/2020 United States v. Dennis Suellentrop, Jr.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-1002
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Loken and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. The Fourth Amendment does not extend to
private searches that are neither instigated nor performed on behalf of a
government agency, and, here, the agents examining the phone went no
further than the private search when they examined the phone; as as
result, they could use the images and videos to obtain a warrant; as to
the remainder of the materials found on the phone, the state investigators
reasonably believed the state warrant authorized the search of defendant's
phone.