Florida police try to unlock phone with dead mans finger during funeral

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LARGO, Fla. -- Florida authorities went to a funeral home and used a dead man's finger to try to unlock his cellphone as part of an investigation.

Thirty-year-old Linus Phillip was killed by a Largo police officer last month after, authorities say, he tried to drive away before an officer could search him.

At the funeral home, two detectives held the man's hands up to the phone's fingerprint sensor, but could not unlock it.

Phillip's fiancée, Victoria Armstrong, says she felt violated and disrespected.

Legal experts mostly agree that what the detectives did was legal, but they question whether it was appropriate.

Charles Rose, a professor at Stetson University College of Law, tells the Tampa Bay Times dead people can't assert their Fourth Amendment protections because you can't own property when you're dead. But those rights could apply to whoever inherits the property.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-use-dead-mans-finger-to-try-to-unlock-his-cellphone/


Legal or not; couldn't the Police have found a more appropriate time to do this search?

Say, like before or after the [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]funeral, it's not like the guys is going anywhere soon. [/FONT]:palm:[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] [/FONT]
 
Bourbon said:
LARGO, Fla. -- Florida authorities went to a funeral home and used a dead man's finger to try to unlock his cellphone as part of an investigation.

Thirty-year-old Linus Phillip was killed by a Largo police officer last month after, authorities say, he tried to drive away before an officer could search him.

At the funeral home, two detectives held the man's hands up to the phone's fingerprint sensor, but could not unlock it.

Phillip's fiancée, Victoria Armstrong, says she felt violated and disrespected.

Legal experts mostly agree that what the detectives did was legal, but they question whether it was appropriate.

Charles Rose, a professor at Stetson University College of Law, tells the Tampa Bay Times dead people can't assert their Fourth Amendment protections because you can't own property when you're dead. But those rights could apply to whoever inherits the property.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-use-dead-mans-finger-to-try-to-unlock-his-cellphone/


Legal or not; couldn't the Police have found a more appropriate time to do this search?

Say, like before or after the [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]funeral, it's not like the guys is going anywhere soon. [/FONT]:palm:[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] [/FONT]
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Just because a body is at a funeral home, doesn't mean that they did this DURING the funeral.

So either show where the funeral was under way or at the very least, just admit that you have no fucking clue about the things you comment on.
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
Just because a body is at a funeral home, doesn't mean that they did this DURING the funeral.

So either show where the funeral was under way or at the very least, just admit that you have no fucking clue about the things you comment on.
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Step One: Deny
 
Bourbon said:
LARGO, Fla. -- Florida authorities went to a funeral home and used a dead man's finger to try to unlock his cellphone as part of an investigation.

Thirty-year-old Linus Phillip was killed by a Largo police officer last month after, authorities say, he tried to drive away before an officer could search him.

At the funeral home, two detectives held the man's hands up to the phone's fingerprint sensor, but could not unlock it.

Phillip's fiancée, Victoria Armstrong, says she felt violated and disrespected.

Legal experts mostly agree that what the detectives did was legal, but they question whether it was appropriate.

Charles Rose, a professor at Stetson University College of Law, tells the Tampa Bay Times dead people can't assert their Fourth Amendment protections because you can't own property when you're dead. But those rights could apply to whoever inherits the property.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-use-dead-mans-finger-to-try-to-unlock-his-cellphone/


Legal or not; couldn't the Police have found a more appropriate time to do this search?

Say, like before or after the [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]funeral, it's not like the guys is going anywhere soon. [/FONT]:palm:[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] [/FONT]
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Human beings don't matter, all part of out values.
 
Bourbon said:
LARGO, Fla. -- Florida authorities went to a funeral home and used a dead man's finger to try to unlock his cellphone as part of an investigation.

Thirty-year-old Linus Phillip was killed by a Largo police officer last month after, authorities say, he tried to drive away before an officer could search him.

At the funeral home, two detectives held the man's hands up to the phone's fingerprint sensor, but could not unlock it.
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That fingerprint thing never works on my phone either.
 
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