Perspective
Nov. 22, 2011
The myth of cell tower tracking
Why this type of call data should not be accepted as reliable evidence of a defendant's guilt. By Michael Cherry, Edward J. Imwinkelried, Aaron Romano and Nicole Hardin
Investigators frequently use cell phone tower information to place a suspect near a crime scene, and for years prosecutors have successfully convinced jurors that the data from a single cell phone tower can reliably specify a person's location at the time of a call. But in reality, it takes simultaneous information from at least three different locations to locate or track a...
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