I don’t claim to be a 4th Amendment scholar.
What I remember from law school: if a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, the police must get a warrant before searching that person’s home or car.
But does that mean the police need to have a judge’s approval to learn a suspect’s real-time location by obtaining that information from a cell phone service provider?
Prosecutors, police, and defense attorney know this area of the law backwards and forwards.
However, they don’t always agree on when that reasonable expectation of privacy exists and what the police should do when it does.
The prosecutors and police have proposed amendments to House Bill 460.
The lobbyist for the Public Defender joined them at Friday’s meeting.
I asked the group if they could narrow their differences.
They kept negotiating when I left for another appointment.
When that other meeting ended, the door was still closed where the 4th Amendment was being considered.
I left them alone. They didn’t need me.
Afterwards, my law student intern told me that progress had been made.
