I imagine they could also solve a lot of crimes if they started water-boarding priests to find out what has been said at confession.
I'm thi king the ex wa is his whole phone searched for other crimes.
All in all, the client and the lawyer are both pretty stupid for not extracting the evidence needed and getting the phone itself out of the picture ASAP.
The sheriff's office and the migistrait are hiding something. It's an obvious witch hunt, Blanket searches are illegal in the United States.