Cellphone Location Info

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cellphone-location-info.pdf"><strong>ruled</strong></a> that the seizure of a man’s cellphone records that police used in their investigation of his murder case was unreasonable and the lower court must now determine whether the man, convicted of beating and stabbing his former girlfriend’s stepfather to death, was harmed by the failure to suppress those records. </span>

AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that the seizure of cellphone records for a murder investigation was unreasonable. The lower court must now determine whether the owner of the records, convicted of beating and stabbing his former girlfriend’s stepfather to death, was harmed by the failure to suppress those records.

Categories / Appeals, Civil Rights, Criminal

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