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Cellphone Photos Confiscated During an Arrest are Shared

The court dismissed the case brought by the woman who is school teacher because she "lacked possession, control, and dominion over the phone as well as the power to exculde others from viewing the images. She and a man who were subjects in the photos because ruled that photos of a personal nature stored on a personal cellphone confiscated by police during his DWI arrest. Culpeper police officers confiscated the cellphone during an arrest, then viewed the images, alerted other police officers and people in the community that the images could be viewed online.

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, Fredericksburg.com, September 5, 2009