4th Amendment At Issue In High Court Appeal Over Cellular Data Acquisition

Mealey's (March 23, 2022, 8:02 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a March 21 respondent brief, the federal government asks the U.S. Supreme Court to deny a petition for certiorari by a convicted armed robber appealing the denial of his motion to suppress cell site location information (CSLI) evidence that placed him at the scene of several crimes, with the government asserting that law enforcement’s obtaining the data at issue did not violate the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because of the good faith exception and because there was no reasonable expectation of privacy in the data....