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obtain the records. The district court denied the motion to suppress, and the Sixth Circuit
585 U.S. ____ (2018)/JUNE 22, 2018/PRIVACY/FEVIDAL affirmed.
The Act provides that the government may require the disclosure of certain
telecommunications records when “specific and articulable facts show” that there are
reasonable grounds to believe that the contents of a wire or electronic communication, or
the records or other information sought, are relevant and material to an ongoing criminal
investigation."
The transactional records obtained by the government include the date and time of calls,
and the approximate location where calls began and ended based on their connections to
cell towers—"cell site" location information (CSLI). This information pointed to Timothy
Carpenter as he was in the area of the places where the robberies took place based on
the aforementioned records.
Based on the cell-site evidence, the government charged Carpenter with, among other
offenses, aiding and abetting robbery that affected interstate commerce, in violation of the
Hobbs Act. Carpenter moved to suppress the government's cell-site evidence on Fourth
Amendment grounds, arguing that the FBI needed a warrant based on probable cause to