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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Cochran affirms the defendant's second-degree murder convictions, finding that officers' use of a "geofence warrant" to obtain information about cellular devices that may have been in the area near where a victim's body was found. Such warrants, which in this case requested anonymized device data from Google on the devices that entered a particular area during a particular time frame, then sought further information from Google for users identified as relevant to the investigation, are not categorically impermissible under either the Minnesota or U.S. Constitutions, and this particular geofence warrant was supported by probable cause and was sufficiently particular to satisfy the requirements of the Fourth Amendment and the privacy provisions of the Minnesota Constitution. Affirmed.