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Supreme Court hangs up on whether smartphone search was 'reasonable'
The action leaves Okello Chatrie convicted of robbing a bank in Virginia in 2019 after police tracked him down by searching for smartphones in the area where robbery occurred.-USA Today
The Supreme Court decided that police who sifted through smartphone data to locate unidentified suspects in crimes conducted a "search" under the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, but sent the case back to lower courts to determine whether the search in a bank-robbery investigation was reasonable.
The case focused on Okello Chatrie, who was convicted of robbing a bank in Virginia in 2019 after police tracked him down by searching for smartphones in the area where robbery occurred. Chatrie argued the police warrant for Google to sift through 500 million customers to find his Samsung Galaxy X9 phone violated his Fourth Amendment right against an unreasonable search because police hadn't identified him as a suspect.
But the Justice Department said Google only named three suspects out of the millions searched. Deputy Solicitor General Eric Feigin said blocking such searches would handicap police searching for murderers, kidnappers and robbers.
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