Supreme Court to rule on police use of cell phone records without warrant
Source: NBC
WASHINGTON — Thousands of times a year, the nation's local police departments get phone company records allowing them to plot the movements of individual customers. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether access to that data should require a search warrant issued by a judge.
The question comes at a time when cell phones are nearly ubiquitous: 95 percent of Americans now own one.
The case is a challenge brought by a Michigan man, Timothy Carpenter, who was convicted of robbing a string of Radio Shack and T-Mobile stores after FBI agents used three months of cell phone records to show that he was near each one at the time of the crimes.
He argues that because the FBI did not get a search warrant, that evidence, along with his conviction, should be thrown out.
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