Matt Kaplan Wins Important Constitutional Rights Appeal
Matt Kaplan prevailed on behalf of his client in a criminal case decided yesterday by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. The Court's opinion, which reverses the murder conviction of Mr. Kaplan's client, addresses two fundamental issues of constitutional law—the application to mobile phones of the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee that citizens are not to be subject to unreasonable government searches and seizures and, separately, an accused’s right to confront witnesses against him or her under the Sixth Amendment. The…