Supreme Court: Probable Cause Required For Cell Location Records Search

Mealey's (June 22, 2018, 1:01 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A divided U.S. Supreme Court on June 22 found that the government’s search of a suspect’s cell site location information (CSLI) records qualified as a search under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, thus requiring a showing of probable cause before search of such records in which it found that a user has a reasonable expectation of privacy (Timothy Ivory Carpenter v. United States, No. 16-402, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. LEXIS 3844)....