jun 22, 2018 - CARPENTER V. UNITED STATES, 2018

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Timothy Carpenter was charged with aiding and abetting robbery that affected interstate commerce after his cell phone records were acquired under the Stored Communications Act. He filed a motion to suppress the evidence saying that the warrantless seizure of this cell-site evidence was in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

The Supreme Court had to decide if the warrantless search and seizure of cell-site evidence violates the Fourth Amendment.

The Court held that this was in violation, citing that the Fourth Amendment not only protects property, but reasonable expectation of privacy. The Court did not extend the third-party doctrine, which is a doctrine where information disclosed to a third party carries no reasonable expectation of privacy.

(Lippman, Criminal Procedure, pgs. 73-81)
(https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/16-402)

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