The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether police have the authority to search the mobile phones of suspects without a warrant, in a key constitutional test in the smartphone age. The top US court indicated it would consider arguments later this year in two related cases on police searches of telephones. One case involved a California student, David Riley, convicted on charges of participating in a shooting after police stopped him for driving with expired license tags. The second case involved the drugs and weapons conviction in Massachusetts of Brima Wurie, whose mobile phone contact lists and logs helped policy find a stash of drugs, guns and cash after he was arrested on suspicion of drug dealing.



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