QLD How Do I Get My Mobile Phone Back from Police?

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Smac

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22 November 2015
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Hi,

The police won't give my mobile phone back. They say it's because I have lodged an appeal and they might need it for evidence, but they have already submitted the evidence from the mobile phone in court.

Can they do this?
 

xtrippyx

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30 October 2015
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Yes, they can I believe. I had my phone seized once and they did a celebrite download. They advised me the phone was going to be forfeited to the crown (basically I never get it back). I had a duty lawyer represent me and request my phone be returned due to a few reasons e.g. I was young and needed my phone, stuck in a contract for x amount of months, how much the phone was costing me per month, etc.

I would talk to your lawyer and ask them if they can request it back since they've done what they needed with it.
 

Smac

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22 November 2015
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Yes, they can I believe. I had my phone seized once and they did a celebrite download. They advised me the phone was going to be forfeited to the crown (basically I never get it back). I had a duty lawyer represent me and request my phone be returned due to a few reasons e.g. I was young and needed my phone, stuck in a contract for x amount of months, how much the phone was costing me per month, etc.

I would talk to your lawyer and ask them if they can request it back since they've done what they needed with it.


Thank you for your response, however, I did that with my first lawyers & they had sent a couple of letters to them with no reply. I am yet to meet my new lawyer who is handling my appeal so perhaps he will have a better idea what to do about it. It's been over two years now & with out exaggeration between myself, my lawyers & members of my family, we must have made at least 40 to 50 requests to have it returned.
 

Smac

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22 November 2015
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Sorry about that, they have never told me that it would be forfeited to the crown & and the judge never ordered that upon conviction either?
 

Rod

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It is unlikely they will return evidence while the court case/s relying on that evidence are still active.