Florida man appeals 162 year sentence on cellphone privacy grounds

[Wireless News]

By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - Lawyers for a south Florida man serving almost 162 years in prison for his role in a string of armed robberies told a U.S. appeals court that prosecutors had no right to use cell phone location data during his trial and the double life sentence without parole was cruel and unusual punishment. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argued that authorities should have had to show probable cause and obtain a search warrant before seeing cellphone records for 22-year-old Quartavious Davis. "I doubt the average user knows how precise the records are," said ACLU attorney Nathan Freed Wessler during Friday's oral arguments before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Miami.

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