Legal Opinion
People v. Garlinger
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 1, 2016No. C074480PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
HOCH, J.
We, as a society, have been communicating wirelessly for more than a century. (Fessenden, Wireless Telephony in Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1908) pp. 578-581.) While technology has advanced considerably since the first signals were transmitted over the air, we conclude in the published portion of this opinion that expert testimony explaining a cell phone signal received by a certain side of a cell tower must have come from that side of the tower and in the general vicinity of the tower does not describe a new scientific technique subject to…
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