Supreme Court to hear case on phone location warrants used to catch bank robber

Geofence warrants turn the usual way of pursuing suspects on its head - (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)

The Supreme Court is poised to rule on a critical digital privacy issue: whether geofence warrants, a powerful police tool, violate the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches.

This legal challenge stems from cases like Okello Chatrie's, who stole $195,000 from a bank in suburban Richmond, Virginia.