“The Fourth Amendment’s particularity requirement bars this sort of ‘rummaging’ through the proverbial home.”
Federal officers asked a judge for permission to run a cell-site simulator 24 hours a day for 30 days across five areas of Akron. That would have hoovered up thousands of uninvolved people to find one guy with an unknown phone. They filed it as a normal warrant application, which tells you they expected it to be signed. A magistrate had to write it down that a month-long dragnet is not particular.