Cellphone records barred from trial; illegal search cited

Little Rock police illegally searched a capital-murder suspect’s cellphone, a Pulaski County circuit judge has ruled in an order barring prosecutors from using the defendant’s phone records at trial. Judge Leon Johnson on Monday sided with defense attorneys Bret Qualls and Lott Rolfe IV to suppress the records of 41-year-old Donald Lee Brown of Little Rock after hearing testimony that police examined the call history on Brown’s flip phone immediately after his arrest.