State v. Hinton

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON STATE OF WASHINGTON, ) ) Respondent, ) No. 87663-1 ) v. ) EnBanc ) SHAWN DANIEL HINTON, ) ) Appellant. ) Filed FEB 2 7 2014 ________________________ ) GONZALEZ, J.-We consider whether a text message conversation was "a private affair[ ]" protected from a warrantless search by article I, section 7 of our state constitution. A police detective read text messages on a cell phone police seized from Daniel Lee, who had been arrested for possession of heroin. Among other things, the detective read an incoming text message from Shawn Hinton, responded…