In my country you wouldn’t even be able to get a warrant for this when it’s about domestic violence.
Maybe only when there’s actual threats that the victim has removed from their phone, which are likely to still exist on the senders phone. But even that is a stretch and a warrant for the data on social media services is far more likely.
Do you know why he was going through a suspects texts? Seems like he was asking for trouble. I won’t even go through texts I have access to.
He dumped the guy’s phone as part of investigating the domestic violence incident.
He was asking for trouble by doing his job?
Without a warrant, sure. Sounded like he was just going through someone’s phone.
In my country you wouldn’t even be able to get a warrant for this when it’s about domestic violence.
Maybe only when there’s actual threats that the victim has removed from their phone, which are likely to still exist on the senders phone. But even that is a stretch and a warrant for the data on social media services is far more likely.