Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves

Although this did have some relevance for establishing motive and state of mind, it was far too lurid and may have swayed the jury unreasonably, the court said. Harris was no longer seen as a murderer, and the state decided not to retry him. But he didn’t get out of prison, because his phone had also revealed “lewd and sometimes illegal sexual messages and pictures with four minors,” which had landed him in jail on separate charges. He was finally released in 2025 . …