Convicted Robber in SCOTUS Privacy Case May Lose, Even if He Wins

You’d think the outcome of the Supreme Court’s landmark search and seizure case this term would make a difference to the man at the center of it.

Not so, scholars on opposite sides of the dispute told Bloomberg Law.

Not if his goal is getting out of prison, anyway.

Carpenter v. United States asks whether warrants are required to get mobile phone location records from wireless carriers. Records obtained from Timothy Carpenter’s carrier suggested he was near the scenes of several robberies and helped secure his convictions for aiding in them.

How the high court balances surveillance and privacy interests ...