Text Messages Can Be Used Against Their Senders in Criminal

Text Messages Can Be Used Against Their Senders in Criminal Cases, Massachusetts Court Rules


Text Messages Can Be Used Against Their Senders in Criminal Cases, Massachusetts Court Rules
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled on Tuesday that senders of text messages are not granted a right to privacy that could stop law enforcement from obtaining and using the messages against them as evidence in a criminal case.
The 5-0 precedent-setting decision (pdf) came in a case involving a Massachusetts man, Jorge Delgado-Rivera, who was indicted, alongside six others, on cocaine-trafficking charges.
An investigation that led to his indictment was sparked from evidence in the form of text messages that were obtained in 2016 by a Texas police officer during a traffic stop. The officer had searched a cellphone that belonged to Leonel Garcia-Castaneda. Delgado-Rivera had sent the messages to that phone, and the messages appeared to link him to an alleged drug trafficking ring.

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