The Fourth Circuit will convene in an en banc sitting to decide whether the government’s use of mobile-device location data in a bank robbery case violated the Fourth Amendment.
The court announced in a Friday order that it would revisit a split panel decision from July in an appeal brought by Okello Chatrie, who had challenged the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia’s denial of his motion to suppress location data evidence as a violation of his constitutional freedom from unreasonable searches. Chatrie pleaded guilty in 2022 to robbing a bank after the evidence was allowed.
His …