State v. Salazar

Malone, J.:

*316 In this interlocutory appeal, the State argues that the district court erred by granting Estefania Salazar's motion to suppress the contents of her cellular phone seized by law enforcement after a fatality motor vehicle accident. The cell phone provided evidence that Salazar may have been texting at the precise moment that the accident occurred. The State argues that the law enforcement officer's initial search of the cell phone-conducted without consent and without a warrant-was legal under the plain view exception to the warrant requirement, but we reject that claim. The State…