{"id":62829,"date":"2026-01-16T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62829"},"modified":"2026-01-20T10:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:51:04","slug":"scotus-grants-cert-in-geofence-case-chatrie-v-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62829","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS grants cert in geofence case, Chatrie v. United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/cases\/case-files\/chatrie-v-united-states\/\">Chatrie v. United States<\/a>, 25-112 (cert. granted Jan. 16, 2026). <strong>Question presented:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>This case concerns the constitutionality of geofence warrants. For cell phone users to use certain services, their cell phones must continuously transmit their exact locations to their service providers. A geofence warrant allows law enforcement to obtain, from the service provider, the identities of users who were in the vicinity of a particular location at a particular time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case, law enforcement obtained, and served on Google, a geofence warrant seeking anonymized location data for every device within 150 meters of the location of a bank robbery within one hour of the robbery. After Google returned an initial list, law enforcement sought\u2014 without seeking an additional warrant\u2014information about the movements of certain devices for a longer, two-hour period, and Google complied with that request as well. Then\u2014again without seeking an additional warrant\u2014law enforcement requested de-anonymized subscriber information for three devices. One of those devices belonged to petitioner Okello Chatrie. Based on the evidence derived from the geofence warrant, petitioner was convicted of armed robbery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The questions presented are:<br \/>1. Whether the execution of the geofence warrant violated the Fourth Amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chatrie v. United States, 25-112 (cert. granted Jan. 16, 2026). Question presented:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geofence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62829","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=62829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62853,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62829\/revisions\/62853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}