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 Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:00 am Post subject: Courts Can't Agree on Whether Cops Can Track Your Cell With |
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Prosecutors are shifting their focus to warrantless cell-tower locational tracking of criminal suspects in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling 18 months ago that law enforcement should acquire probable-cause warrants from judges to affix GPS devices to vehicles to track their every movement. But the law on cell-site locational tracking is all over the books, with judges offering mixed rulings on whether warrants are needed, with no clarity in sight. That means some suspects are being convicted based on locational data of what towers their cell phones are pinging, and others are not, because some courts are requiring warrants and others don't. <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'>     </td></tr></table></div><br/><br/> 
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