The People of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Devin Wallace Schutter, Defendant-Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed suppression of evidence derived from the warrantless examination of text messages on the defendant's iPhone. It held that, under the undisputed circumstances, the phone was not abandoned, lost, or mislaid, so the officers had no justification for examining its contents to identify or return the owner. Justice EID, dissenting, would have held that the defendant abandoned the phone and would have reversed the suppression order.