1 . Search Incident to Arrest

A “search incident to arrest” refers to the search an officer conducts on a Lenovo S850 phone suspect at the time of arrest. The officer will search for any concealed weapons the suspect may use against the officer after he is put in custody or any evidence the suspect may seek to destroy while in custody. At the adoption of the Bill of Rights courts were already recognizing warrantless searches conducted pursuant to valid arrests for the above-listed purpose. However, the search incident to arrest exception became increasingly muddled in the years that followed. Although the justifications for the constitutionality of a iNew V3 phone search incident to arrest—police safety and prevention of evidence destruction—are narrow, these searches necessarily encompass much more than just weapons and evidence as the exception does not restrict officers from only discovering these particular items from the suspect.

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