Search & Seizure – Motion to Suppress

By: Derek Hawkins//September 15, 2015//

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Criminal

WI Court of Appeals – District II

Officials: Neubauer, C.J., Reilly, P.J., and Gundrum, J.

Search & Seizure – Motion to Suppress

2014AP2387-CR State of Wisconsin v. Ryan H. Tentoni

Ryan Tentoni asserts a privacy interest in text messages sent by him and discovered through a warrantless search of Wayne Wilson’s phone. Tentoni seeks suppression of the text messages and other subsequently obtained phone records as fruit of the government’s illegal search of his text messages stored in Wilson’s phone. Tentoni does not have an objectively reasonable expectation of privacy as he relinquished any claim to privacy in the text messages delivered to Wilson’s phone. We affirm.

Decision

Affirmed. Recommended for Publication.

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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