{"id":62920,"date":"2026-01-28T10:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62920"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:14:47","slug":"cns-maryland-man-argues-arrest-using-cellphone-tracking-device-violates-the-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62920","title":{"rendered":"CNS: Maryland man argues arrest using cellphone tracking device violates the Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CNS: <a href=\"https:\/\/courthousenews.com\/maryland-man-argues-arrest-using-cellphone-tracking-device-violates-the-fourth-amendment\/\">Maryland man argues arrest using cellphone tracking device violates the Fourth Amendment<\/a> by Sydney Haulenbeek (\u201cHis attorney argued the police \u2018basically seized\u2019 his phone with the equipment police used to locate him. [\u00b6] &#8220;A Maryland man arrested after police used a device mimicking a cellphone tower to find his phone \u2014 and him \u2014 argued before a Fourth Circuit panel Tuesday that police needed a warrant. The Baltimore Police Department, which was attempting to arrest Kerron Andrews on charges of triple attempted murder after a shooting during a drug deal, secured a court order allowing them to use a cell-site simulator to obtain his real-time location information in May 2014. The police\u2019s court order did not satisfy the Fourth Amendment\u2019s warrant requirement, Andrews said, and the officers are not protected by qualified immunity because they did not disclose their plan to use a specific device when seeking the order.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[I usually don&#8217;t mention pending matters until they&#8217;re ruled on, but some just need to be mentioned as a heads up.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNS: Maryland man argues arrest using cellphone tracking device violates the Fourth Amendment by Sydney Haulenbeek (\u201cHis attorney argued the police \u2018basically seized\u2019 his phone with the equipment police used to locate him. [\u00b6] &#8220;A Maryland man arrested after police &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62920\">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-62920","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\/62920","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=62920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62927,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62920\/revisions\/62927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}