Michigan Supreme Court: Unrestricted phone searches violate Fourth Amendment

>Michael Carson became the focus of a theft investigation involving money allegedly taken from a neighbor’s safe.

>Authorities secured a warrant to search his phone, but the document placed no boundaries on what could be examined.

>It permitted access to all data on the device, including messages, photos, contacts, and documents, without any restriction based on time period or relevance. Investigators collected over a thousand pages of information, much of it unrelated to the accusation.

Yeah that's pretty absurd.

What's more absurd is that a warrant could ever establish such a restriction. If the suspect had a file named "Not evidence of me stealing my neighbor's safe" and "Definitely not a video of me practicing how to break open a safe" would it be fair to assume the warrant doesn't allow access to it?

The warrant is giving special, temporary powers to the police.

How do you think a warrant couldn’t establish such restrictions when it’s already loosening existing restrictions on the police?

You're not providing examples of any actual restrictions that can be put on a warrant. Is the judge going to give the officers byte offsets to look at on a block device?

Something like "call logs and text messages sent between 22nd and 26th of August" would be common, to my understanding.

Well that's a funny thing, because what is a text message? Does it include RCS? Does it include WhatsApp? What about Telegram?

I made a text file and emailed it to my boss a few weeks back, is that a "text" ?