§ 215.50) for use of a cell phone in the courtroom during a rape trial to take
pictures in violation of the judge’s admonition that all cell phones were to be
turned off and put away, the photographs recovered from defendant’s cell
phone were properly suppressed since after parsing the application for the
search warrant—obtained after the unlawful search of defendant’s cell
phone—of the illegally obtained information, the remaining allegations did
not make out the necessary probable cause. According to the application, the
warrant was sought to investigate the surreptitious taking of photographs
inside the courtroom during the trial, with the probable cause in support of
the warrant that court officers observed the photos of the complainant.
However, after reciting that the initial basis for seizing defendant’s phone was
one of the officers’ suspicion that defendant was taking pictures of him in the
courthouse hallway, the only photos specified in the application as having been