Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 3/11/2015

Commonwealth v. Augustine

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470 Mass. 837
26 N.E.3d 709

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concluding subjective prong met where defendant averred that he acquired cell phone for personal use and never affirmatively permitted police or other law enforcement officials to access cell site location information [CSLI] records
person has reasonable expectation of privacy, to certain extent, in historical CSLI relating to cell phone
search occurs when government intrudes on actual and reasonable expectation of privacy
\GPS data and historical CSLI are linked at a fundamental level\ because they both implicate \the same constitutionally protected interest -- a person's reasonable expectation of privacy -- in the same manner -- by tracking the person's movements\
warrant required under art. 14 of Massachusetts Declaration of Rights
reasonable expectation of privacy exists in cellular site location information [CSLI]6

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Judges: Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Gants, Duffly, Lenk

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