Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cuff, real crime stories. I'm your host,

retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD. A lot of things happening from my perspective, at least,

and I think from many people's perspective,

in regards to this Stefan Stern's, of course,

the Madeline Soto case.

And he is scheduled to go on trial May 5th

for the first half of this case, which we of course know is the

essay part of all the bad photos that were found on his cell phone. And that has become a huge

legal point, at least for his defense, who are trying to get it thrown out, saying that the

detective should have gotten a search warrant.

She, in fact, even says, would you give me permission to go into your phone, or should

I get a search warrant?

He goes, no, I'll give you a permission.

He gives a permission to go into his cell phone. Consent is a waiver of the Fourth Amendment rights. If you give

someone consent to search, that's good. The argument that the defense would make is that,

oh, the police in their very role as police are intimidating, and just the fact that they're asking should be viewed as an order. And that's the way the defense will probably go with this. But that will be all up to the judge. And I cannot see the judge throwing out the consent search of that phone, which led to the search warrant.

Because once the detective in this case found those bad photos on the phone, she obtained a search warrant to continue the

search. And that is what found the whatever was 15,000 images, 17,000 images that were downloaded

or backed up on Google.

So that is the whole part of this case, of course, that Stefan Stearns,

of course, thought I did a factory reset on my phone.

He thought he got rid of all of those for all those bad photos.

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