Legal Opinion
Jones v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 4, 2025No. S24A1085PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
321 Ga. 137
FINAL COPY S24A1085. JONES v. THE STATE. PINSON, Justice. James Christopher Jones was charged with murder after the police identified her using the location history from her cell phone. The police got that location history through search warrants that authorized the police to obtain from Google an anonymized list of devices that reported their locations within 100 meters of the vic- tim’s home during the four hours when the murder happened — a process known as “geofencing” — and identifying information tied to the subset of devices that were relevant to the investigation. Before…
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