State v. ROSENBAUM

305 Ga. 442

FINAL COPY S18A1090. THE STATE v. ROSENBAUM et al. BOGGS, Justice. This case considers, for the first time in Georgia, the effect of the State’s delay in obtaining search warrants for data contained in electronic devices when those devices were originally seized in a warrantless, but lawful, manner by police. The trial court suppressed the evidence derived from the devices, relying on persuasive authority from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to find that the delay between the seizure of the devices and the issuance of the search warrants for the data…