Law & Crime reports:
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that the disclosure of location information provided by Facebook to the FBI about users inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 did not violate Fourth Amendment privacy rights of a defendant who live-streamed his breach of the building.
Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell issued the ruling Wednesday in the case of Matthew Bledsoe, 38, who was convicted by a jury in July of a felony and four misdemeanors in connection with the attack at the U.S. Capitol.
Howell said that Bledsoe “voluntarily conveyed” his location information to Facebook, citing the platform’s Data Policy to which Bledsoe had agreed.
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Chief D.C. Judge Finds Jan. 6 Rioter Who Live-Streamed Capitol Breach on Facebook Had No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in Location Datahttps://t.co/nGKOCu86op
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) August 26, 2022
“Where’s those pieces of shit at?” Matthew Bledsoe asked on Jan. 6.
A prosecutor asked him during his testimony who the pieces of shit were. Bledsoe had trouble explaining!pic.twitter.com/omzaA69Spc
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) July 21, 2022
“I fought the law…and the law won!” Jan 6 defendant, Matthew Bledsoe was just found GUILTY on all counts, including a felony (obstruction of an official proceeding) plus 4 misdemeanors.
https://t.co/aLtqXPS0SW— Barb (@my2cnz) July 21, 2022
Truly amazing moment during Matthew Bledsoe’s testimony yesterday was when he insisted not only that he didn’t hear the door alarm going off on Jan. 6, but that he didn’t hear it when they played his own video in court that featured the door alarm blaring. https://t.co/hyTsVEXOhF
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) July 21, 2022
Explaining why he climbed a wall to get to the Capitol, Matthew Bledsoe told jurors things were “quite a bit different” in Tennessee and that he climbs stuff all the time. https://t.co/hyTsVEXOhF
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) July 21, 2022