The D.C. Court of Appeals found that District police violated a man’s constitutional rights by using cellphone surveillance technology to track his location without a warrant, reversing his robbery and sexual-assault convictions.
The 2-1 decision puts Washington in line with a growing number of jurisdictions where courts have taken a dim view of the cell-site tracking technology, which police departments have turned to as a forceful investigative tool.
In Thursday’s ruling, judges said the use of cell-site simulators to locate Prince Jones’ phone amounted to a search under the Fourth Amendment and “invaded a reasonable expectation of privacy.”
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