Matthews v. State

Summary

The Court held that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to move to suppress evidence obtained from Matthews’s cellphone. The cellphone warrant was an unconstitutional general warrant, Matthews did not validly consent to the search, and the cellphone evidence was material to the State’s circumstantial case, creating a reasonable probability of a different result. The Court reversed and vacated Matthews’s convictions and remanded for a new trial without the improperly seized evidence.