Key Highlights
- Police used the information to arrest Okello Chatrie in the 2019 robbery of the Call Federal Credit Union in Midlothian.
- Chatrie eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison.
- Chatrie's lawyers challenged the warrant as a violation of his privacy because it allowed authorities to gather the location history of people near the bank without having any evidence they had anything to do with the robbery.
- Prosecutors argued that Chatrie had no expectation of privacy because he voluntarily opted into Google's Location History.
- A federal judge agreed that the search violated Chatrie's rights, but still allowed the evidence to be used because the officer who applied for the warrant reasonably believed he was acting properly.
