{"id":22920,"date":"2016-07-13T12:31:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T17:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22920"},"modified":"2016-07-14T07:10:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T12:10:35","slug":"s-d-n-y-use-of-stingray-device-by-dea-was-unreasonable-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22920","title":{"rendered":"S.D.N.Y.: Warrantless use of stingray device by DEA was unreasonable search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The warrantless use of a cell site simulator to capture information about defendant\u2019s cell phone was a violation of the Fourth Amendment and suppressed. \u201cThus, even though the DEA believed that the use of the cell-site simulator would reveal the location of a phone associated with criminal activity, the Fourth Amendment requires the Government to obtain a warrant from a neutral magistrate to conduct that search.\u201d The third party doctrine is also unavailing to the government because what the government captured was not third party information. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysd.uscourts.gov\/cases\/show.php?db=special&#038;id=513\">United States v. Lambis<\/a>, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 90085 (S.D.N.Y. July 12, 2016). Here, the Stringray led to an apartment search.<\/p>\n<p>See NYLJ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorklawjournal.com\/home\/id=1202762368837\/Judge-Rules-Use-of-StingRays-in-Policing-Requires-Warrant?mcode=1202617075062&#038;curindex=4&#038;slreturn=20160613133334\">Judge Rules Use of \u2018StingRays\u2019 in Policing Requires Warrant<\/a>; NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/stingray-evidence-tossed-raymond-lambis_us_5785eaaae4b08608d33235aa?section=\">In First, U.S. Judge Throws Out Cell Phone &#8216;Stingray&#8217; Evidence<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/13\/nyregion\/dea-needed-warrant-to-track-suspects-phone-judge-says.html?ref=todayspaper&#038;_r=0\">D.E.A. Needed Warrant to Track Suspect\u2019s Phone, Judge Says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The warrantless use of a cell site simulator to capture information about defendant\u2019s cell phone was a violation of the Fourth Amendment and suppressed. \u201cThus, even though the DEA believed that the use of the cell-site simulator would reveal the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22920\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,84,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-cell-site-location-information","category-cs-sim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22920"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22931,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22920\/revisions\/22931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}