{"id":37386,"date":"2019-04-26T07:41:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T12:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37386"},"modified":"2019-04-26T07:54:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T12:54:12","slug":"ma-pinging-a-cell-phone-is-a-search-but-here-it-was-with-exigent-circumstances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37386","title":{"rendered":"MA: Pinging a cell phone is a search, but here it was with exigent circumstances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pinging a cell phone to find its location was a search under the Massachusetts Constitution and Fourth Amendment, but it was reasonable because the state showed true exigent circumstances. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/files\/documents\/2019\/04\/23\/12499.pdf\">Commonwealth v. Almonor<\/a>, 482 Mass. 35 (Apr. 23, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>Washington declines to adopt a per se rule that \u201cWe need not decide if Washington should adopt a per se rule that the obstructing of the accused&#8217;s exit in a car always constitutes a seizure. Other factors, along with the officer&#8217;s blocking the Monte Carlo&#8217;s passageway, contribute to our conclusion.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/opinions\/pdf\/355608_pub.pdf\">State v. Carriero<\/a>, 2019 Wash. App. LEXIS 978 (Apr. 25, 2019).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinging a cell phone to find its location was a search under the Massachusetts Constitution and Fourth Amendment, but it was reasonable because the state showed true exigent circumstances. Commonwealth v. Almonor, 482 Mass. 35 (Apr. 23, 2019). Washington declines &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37386\">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":[5,84,3,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-cell-site-location-information","category-emergency-exigency","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37386","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=37386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37388,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37386\/revisions\/37388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}