The United States Supreme Court is beginning its new term this month and one of the cases it has agreed to hear involves a Detroit man.
32 year old Timothy Carpenter was sentenced two years ago to 116 years in prison after being convicted in a string of cell phone store robberies.
He was convicted on the basis of his own cell phone records that showed he was in the area for all of the robberies.
The ACLU took his case to the high court.
It argues that information from Carpenter’s cell phone should not have been used against him.
Attorneys argued that cell phone records can reveal countless private details of our lives, ranging from where we worship, what political rallies we attend and even where we sleep at night.
And, as a result, using his cell phone records to convict him violated constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.