Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 4/23/2019

Commonwealth v. Almonor

Citations

120 N.E.3d 1183
482 Mass. 35

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holding that “[a] search in the constitutional sense occurs when the government’s conduct intrudes on a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy” (quotation omitted)
explaining that historical CSLI data is “collected and stored by the service provider in the ordinary course of business when the cell phone user voluntarily makes or receives a telephone call”
concluding similarly that where suspect murdered individual in presence of others who knew him, unprovoked and with no apparent motive and no apparent fear of consequences, it was reasonable to believe that “other individuals were in danger as well”
tracking cell phone \results in 'near perfect surveillance' of its user\ [citation omitted]
considering if “police had reasonable grounds to believe that obtaining a warrant would be impracticable under the circumstances because the delay in doing so would pose a significant risk that (1) the suspect may flee, (2) evidence may be destroyed, or (3
police causing cellular telephone to reveal real-time location contravenes reasonable expectation of privacy

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Judges: Gants, Lenk, Gaziano, Lowy, Budd, Cypher, Kafker

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