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U.S. v. SKINNER

No. 09-6497.

690 F.3d 772 (2012)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Melvin SKINNER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 14, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Gerald L. Gulley, Jr. , Gulley Oldham, PLLC, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellant. David P. Lewen, Jr. , United States Attorney's Office, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Gerald L. Gulley, Jr. , Gulley Oldham, PLLC, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellant. David P. Lewen, Jr. , United States Attorney's Office, Knoxville, Tennessee, Mark Eckenwiler , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.

ROGERS, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which CLAY, J., joined. DONALD, J. (pp. 784-88), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.

OPINION

ROGERS, Circuit Judge.

When criminals use modern technological devices to carry out criminal acts and to reduce the possibility of detection, they can hardly complain when the police take advantage of the inherent characteristics of those very devices to catch them. This is not a case in which the government secretly placed a tracking device in someone's car. The drug runners in this case used pay-as-you-go (and thus presumably more difficult to...

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