You just got a big win in keeping your location info secret from the cops

In the case before the court, authorities had exhausted all other leads when they sought a court-approved geofence warrant based on footage of the robber using a cellphone at the credit union - (Getty Images)

The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a judicial decision Monday involving a Virginia man's challenge to a "geofence" warrant used by police to access cellphone location data near a crime scene leading to his conviction for armed robbery.

The justices, in a 6-3 decision, tossed a lower court's ruling against defendant Okello Chatrie, who had argued he was subjected to an illegal search and that evidence in his case should be excluded. Chatrie conditionally pleaded guilty in 2022 to robbing a Midlothian, Virginia credit union, while continuing to press his appeal.