The Pants Defense of Texas

[Tim Cushing on stupidity in Texas](http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130402/19381122555/eff-files-amicus-brief-texas-high-court-battling-state-prosecutors-claims-that-searching-cell-phone-is-no-different-than.shtml): > Arguing that a cell phone is nothing more than a set of pants pockets is deliberately understating the reality in order to justify skirting the Fourth Amendment. The argument is that because a cellphone is in a person’s pocket, it is fine to search the contents of the […]

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