Key legal question
Whether the police search of the iPhone records without a prior prosecutor order was lawful and whether the resulting evidence was admissible.
Extracted holding
The search exceeded the scope of a police stop, but the absence of a prosecutor order was only an order violation; the address data and derivative testimony were admissible.
Extracted reasoning
A search of stored records on a phone is a records search under Art. 246 StPO, not merely an effects check under Art. 215 StPO. No danger in delay justified police action under Art. 241 Abs. 3 StPO. However, the breach of the ordering requirement did not amount to a validity defect, because the search was otherwise permissible and not disproportionate, and no deliberate circumvention of prosecutorial competence was shown.