Legal Opinion
United States v. Melvin Skinner
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 14, 2012No. 09-6497PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, J., joined by Clay, J.,
DONALD, J. (pp. 784-88), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.
OPINION
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
When criminals use modern technological devices to carry out criminal acts and to reduce the possibility of detection, they can hardly complain when the police take advantage of the inherent characteristics of those very devices to catch them. This is not a case in which the government secretly placed a tracking device in someone’s car. The drug runners in this case used pay-as-you-go (and thus presumably more difficult to trace) cell phones to communicate…
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