The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a lower court ruling Wednesday in a Fourth Amendment case allowing the government to use mobile-device data it obtained from Google Inc. to prosecute a bank robbery, but the court’s 15 judges couldn’t produce a majority opinion explaining why.
The court sitting en banc ruled 14-1 in favor of affirming the lower court ruling, which allowed information from a so-called geofence warrant to be used to prosecute of Okello Chatrie for the robbery, but it issued eight separate opinions concurring in the result in addition to a dissenting opinion.
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