Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Revenge (2018)

Tom Titone: Judge Joshua Goldfarb

Quotes 

• Nikki Staines : The police clearly violated my client's Fourth Amendment rights by searching the GPS records on his cell phone without a valid warrant.

  Peter Stone : The police obtained the records unwittingly, Your Honor.

  Nikki Staines : So my client should suffer?

  Peter Stone : The phone company was in error, not the police. I'm only asking that the court find a small exception to a very recent change in the law.

  Nikki Staines : In Carpenter v U.S., the Court held...

  Judge Joshua Goldfarb : I've read the opinion, counselor. It's a new world, Mr. Stone. People carry their cell phones with them everywhere they go. Nobody has an expectation that Big Brother is constantly tracking their movements.

  Peter Stone : I'm not asking you to disregard...

  Judge Joshua Goldfarb : You're asking me to invade every citizen's right to privacy.

  Peter Stone : The People only ask that Your Honor consider the doctrine of inevitable discovery. The police would have inevitably asked the court for a warrant, and they would have certainly received one.

  Judge Joshua Goldfarb : And that would render the ruling in Carpenter meaningless. I'm not a big enough deal to tangle with the Supreme Court, Mr. Stone. The defendant's motion is sustained. The GPS records are inadmissable.