Tom Brady’s reported destruction of his personal smartphone before meeting with the NFL’s “Deflategate investigator” Ted Wells was “on solid ground legally,” NECN reports. “The NFL has no power to issue their own subpoena," said defense lawyer Peter Elikann. “They're not a court. They're not law enforcement.” He added. "Smartphones are something that we've never had in history before. Your entire life is on a smartphone: your financial records, your personal photographs, your private romantic communications." The report suggests if the NFL can get a judge to require texts to be produced by Brady’s smartphone provider, “Brady will find he enjoys significantly lower privacy protections than if the government had accused him of a crime and Fourth Amendment search-and-seizure protections applied.”
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