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The Supreme Court on Friday put new restraints on law enforcement's access to the ever-increasing amount of private information about Americans available in the digital age.
In the specific case before the court, the justices ruled that authorities generally must obtain a warrant to gain access to cell-tower records that can provide a virtual timeline and map of a person's whereabouts.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the 5 to 4 decision, in which he was joined by the court's liberal members. Each of the dissenting conservatives wrote separate opinions.
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Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 23 2018, @01:34PM
What happens to all prior convictions based on improperly acquired evidence?
``the improperly convicted remain imprisoned and have to appeal individually'', or ``vacate all convictions involving such evidence, and make the LEOs retry each case individually''?
What happens to those in the chain of command who permitted violation of the constitution?
Nothing or a criminal trial?
Probably the first in both cases.
(I know nothing about law, but something seems deeply wrong with just shrugging and keeping the improperly convicted imprisoned, even temporarily. The guilty going free seems a good disincentive to keep cops honest, because it stays the hand of even those willing to sacrifice their career for justice-as-they-judge-it when they look to ignore rule of law, and rule of law seems more important than justice-as-random-cops-judge-it.)