Car Data Retrieval Unconstitutional, Georgia Supreme Court Says (1)

A warrantless search of car data after a fatal crash violated the Fourth Amendment, the Georgia Supreme Court said, reversing lower state courts that had ruled against a motion to suppress the data.

The state’s high court ruled Oct. 21 in Mobley v. State that a trial court “should have granted the motion to suppress” evidence of data that law enforcement got from a car’s electronic data recording device without a warrant at the crash scene. It reversed the Georgia Court of Appeals’ decision affirming the trial court’s ruling that the evidence was admissible under the inevitable discovery doctrine.

The ...