United States v. Edward Bishop

Easterbrook, Circuit Judge.

A drug deal went wrong. After receiving a dose of pepper spray from his customer, Edward Bishop shot her in the arm. A jury convicted him of discharging a firearm during a drug transaction, 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c), and the judge sentenced him to 120 months' imprisonment. He presents one contention on appeal: that the warrant authorizing a search of his cell phone-a search that turned up incriminating evidence-violated the Fourth Amendment's requirement that every warrant "particularly describ[e] the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

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