John Wesley Hall writes:
(1) Florida’s 4th DCA finds a reasonable expectation of privacy in Facebook private messages as analogous to cell phone text messages. (2) When the records were seized under a warrant for a theft, they couldn’t be searched for evidence of this crime, a shooting. Therefore, the good faith exception is not applied. Young v. State, 2024 Fla. App. LEXIS 7466 (Fla. 4th DCA Sep. 25, 2024):
Although the search at issue was of a Facebook account, the same privacy concerns apply because the detective garnered the evidence at issue through appellant’s private messages, which are analogous to a cell phone’s text messages.
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