Thomas v. State

Jerome Thomas v. State of Maryland, No. 1530, Sept. Term, 2023. Opinion by Tang, J. SEARCH, SEIZURE, AND ARREST – EXCEPTIONS TO WARRANT REQUIREMENT – EMERGENCIES AND EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES – OPPORTUNITY TO OBTAIN WARRANT Exigent circumstances exception to the warrant requirement justified the police’s warrantless use of real-time cell-site location information (“CSLI”) obtained from the appellant’s service provider and a cell-site simulator. Police were actively pursuing a fleeing suspect who had thus far eluded them, and, given that he was accused of committing a fatal shooting, it was…