State v. McDonnell

State of Maryland v. Daniel Ashley McDonnell, No. 36, September Term, 2022 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – FOURTH AMENDMENT – SEARCHES AND SEIZURES – REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY – CONSENT – FORENSIC COPY OF DIGITAL DATA – Supreme Court of Maryland held that defendant had reasonable expectation of privacy in data stored on his laptop’s hard drive, whether data was electronically stored on his hard drive or government’s copy of hard drive made with defendant’s consent. Defendant’s reasonable expectation of privacy was not eliminated by government’s copying of hard drive because no data was exposed…