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COMMONWEALTH v. ALMONOR

SJC-12499.

482 Mass. 35 (2019)

COMMONWEALTH v. JEROME ALMONOR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

April 23, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jessica L. Kenny , Assistant District Attorney ( Nathaniel Kennedy , Assistant District Attorney, also present) for the Commonwealth.

Matthew Spurlock , Committee for Public Counsel Services ( Randall K. Power also present) for the defendant.

Jennifer Lynch & Andrew Crocker, of California, Chauncey B. Wood , Christopher T. Holding , Matthew R. Segal , & Jessie J. Rossman, for Electronic Frontier Foundation & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

The police quickly identified the defendant as the person suspected of murdering the victim with a sawed-off shotgun. In an attempt to pinpoint the location of the fleeing suspect, the police caused the defendant's cell phone to be "pinged."1 They did so without a warrant. The legality of that ping in these...

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