Robert Burton v. State

Robert Burton was convicted of first-degree murder and petit theft in connection with the shooting death of Maximino Cortes. Cortes was shot four times, including fatal shots to his neck and chest, while walking home from work on the night of December 27, 2012. While Cortes’s backpack was stolen, seven hundred dollars in cash was left in his pocket. Burton raises four issues on appeal, only one of which merits discussion. He challenges the denial of Jiis motion to suppress evidence obtained from a warrantless search of his cell phone incident to his arrest, along with the subsequent use of…