{"id":8806,"date":"2013-05-29T14:19:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T14:19:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T14:19:08","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8806","title":{"rendered":"ABAJ.com: Prosecutors\u2019 use of mobile phone tracking is \u2018junk science,\u2019 critics say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/magazine\/article\/prosecutors_use_of_mobile_phone_tracking_is_junk_science_critics_say\/\">Prosecutors\u2019 use of mobile phone tracking is \u2018junk science,\u2019 critics say<\/a> by Mark Hansen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At his trial last year on federal kidnapping and conspiracy charges, prosecutors sought to introduce cell tower evidence purporting to show that calls placed from defendant Antonio Evans\u2019 cellphone could have come from his aunt\u2019s house, where the victim was thought to have been held for ransom.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not unusual. Hardly a day goes by when some prosecutor doesn\u2019t go to court armed with cell tower evidence he or she claims places a defendant in the vicinity of a crime the defendant is accused of committing.<\/p>\n<p>What made the Evans case unusual was the fact that the defense even put up a fight to keep the cell tower evidence out of the trial. Evans\u2019 lawyers said the technique has not been shown to be scientific.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8806\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}