Cell Phone ‘Tower Dump’ Data Admissible in Massachusetts Trials

Location and timing-related data obtained from a cell phone “tower dump” during the investigation of a string of robberies and a homicide in the Boston area in fall 2018 may be used against a criminal defendant at trial, Massachusetts’ high court said.

The evidence from a second warrant investigators obtained against Jerron Perry can be used, because the affidavit supporting it was crafted with sufficient particularity under the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, the opinion by Justice Frank M. Gaziano of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said April 1.

But evidence obtained from use of the first warrant must be suppressed ...