Constitution Day Program, Professor Jennifer Brooke Sargent, J.D.

Hey, You Can’t Just Look in There: Current Fourth Amendment Issues Regarding Cell Phone and Email Privacy after Riley v. California (2014).

September 18, 2014
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
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Rockefeller Center
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Public
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Joanne Needham
603-646-2207

Constitution Day commemorates the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution by 39 brave men on September 17, 1787. Prof. Sargent is this year's Constitution Day speaker.

In Riley v. California (2014), a unanimous United States Supreme Court held that police cannot search digital information on an arrestee’s cell phone without a warrant. Champions of privacy hailed the decision as overwhelmingly embodying the principles and purposes of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. But the Fourth Amendment requires judges to specify and particularize what is to be seized and the proper scope of the search. Judges who issue search warrants must respect the Supreme Court’s analysis while they wade into the technically complicated area of digital privacy.  It’s easier said than done.

Jennifer Sargent is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Writing at Dartmouth College. Professor Sargent is also a faculty member at the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada. Professor Sargent served as a District Court Judge in New Hampshire for eight years.  She resigned from the bench to serve as Chief Disciplinary Counsel for the New Hampshire Supreme Court Attorney Discipline Office.

Professor Sargent graduated from Emory University in 1989 and Suffolk University Law School in 1992. After law school, she served as a judicial law clerk to the judges of the District and Superior Courts of Vermont. She then spent eight years as a criminal defense trial and appellate attorney in New Hampshire with the New Hampshire Public Defender and New Hampshire Appellate Defender.  Professor Sargent taught as an Associate Professor of Law at Vermont Law School and a Visiting Associate Professor of Writing at Dartmouth during the years she was on the bench.

 

Location
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
Sponsored by
Rockefeller Center
Audience
Public
More information
Joanne Needham
603-646-2207