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Appeals court says warrantless ‘ping’ of cell phone was permissible to find murder suspect
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The state’s second-highest court determined for the first time that police acted lawfully by obtaining a murder suspect’s real-time cell phone location from his wireless carrier. Courts around the country have reached different conclusions about whether cell site location information – or a “ping” – amounts to a search under the Fourth Amendment’s general prohibition on warrantless…


