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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Goldberg affirms a trial court’s evidentiary rulings against a defendant ultimately convicted of auto theft and being a probation violator, rejecting the defendant’s assertion the trial justice erred by failing to suppress certain evidence collected as a result of a warrantless search that police homicide detectives conducted of his real-time cell-site location information (CSLI). The trial justice “clearly erred” in determining how much time it would have taken the detectives to obtain a warrant for defendant’s real-time CSLI, “we conclude that there was a ‘compelling necessity for immediate action’ that would not brook the delay of obtaining a warrant.” Based on additional evidence, any error in denying defendant’s request to suppress his CSLI was “harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”