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Alright. Today's question is, can we search a deceased victim's cell phone? Right? Okay, so comes from an officer in Alabama, let me ask, let me give you the context here recently, and, you know, at overdoses, our narcotics Units unit has been wanting to seize the cell phones for the purpose of searching them. The goal is to charge a drug dealer with the death of the individual, right? As well as general information gathering, maybe they can point to the right finger in the direction of local dealers in the in the city and so forth. Now, the cop says My understanding is that since the person is deceased, they no longer have a fourth human rights in the deceased has no more issue, privacy interest in the phone, and they can perform the search without a warrant. Now, the only hiccup the officer is seeing here is that what if the family member says ...