Legal Opinion

Willis v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided September 19, 2014No. 2D13-3981PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ALTENBERND, Judge.

Matthew Willis appeals his judgments and sentences for twenty counts of possession of child pornography. The images were found on his cell phone during what began as a traffic stop in February 2012. Although at the time of the stop the war-rantless search for these photographs was permissible under the First District’s decision in Smallwood v. State, 61 So.Sd 448 (Fla. 1st DCA 2011) (Smallwood I), that decision was reversed by the supreme court in Smallwood v. State, 113 So.3d 724 (Fla.2013) (Smallwood II). Moreover, the United States Supreme Court reached a decision similar…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. United States v. LeonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  3. Chimel v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  4. Arizona v. GantSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
  5. Davis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2011

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3Cited by9 opinions

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  5. Christopher L. Carpenter v. State of FloridaSupreme Court of Florida · 2017

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