Legal Opinion
State v. Roden
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided June 26, 2012No. Nos. 41037-1-II; 41047-8-IIPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPenoyar, J.
¶1 A police detective acquired the iPhone1 of a suspected drug dealer. The detective looked through the iPhone’s contents and replied to a text message from Jonathan Roden stored on the iPhone. Through a series of text messages from the dealer’s phone, the detective and Roden arranged to meet for a drug transaction, which led to Roden’s conviction of attempted possession of heroin. He appeals this conviction, arguing that the detective violated Washington’s privacy act, chapter 9.73 RCW, by intercepting his private text messages to the dealer. Because Roden impliedly consented to the…
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