The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said a phone dragnet was OK because there was “particularized evidence that the perpetrator had used a cellular telephone during the commission of the offenses, or in the periods immediately before or thereafter, as the perpetrator apparently communicated by phone with a getaway driver.
However in a unanimous decision, judges said a “tower dump” would not be allowed if the police merely said they th
ought the perpetrator had a phone. The court also specified that warrants for tower dumps must be approved by a judge, and indicate that data about innocent people caught up in the dragnet will be promptly destroyed.
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