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NO WARRANT FOR
PHONE RECORDS

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Suicidal
teen with
knife shot
by police
Manchester cops kill Toms River
18-year-old after intense standoff
ALEX N. GECAN @GEEKSTERTWEETS
ALEXANDRIA CAROLAN @ALEXHCAROLAN
ANDREW FORD @ANDREWFORDNEWS

In apparent compromise, divided justices decide

that police demands for billing information showing
a suspects calls still require a judges approval

11 families release scathing letter

denouncing nominees comments
AUSTIN BOGUES @AUSTINBOGUES

Gary Lunsford of Asbury Park is

at the center of a case involving
police access to a persons
cellphone records.

Had the state gotten what

it sought ... I think that
would have been a
significant incursion on
civil liberties.
KEVIN H. MARINO,

See PHONE, Page 5A

See KILLED, Page 5A

Gold Star mothers

take aim at Trump

KATHLEEN HOPKINS @KHOPKINSAPP

TRENTON - Police will no longer need a warrant to look

at your personal phone bills if they can simply convince a
judge that they need the records for an ongoing criminal
investigation, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday, toppling a 30-year-old rule.
In a case watched closely by privacy advocates, acting
Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino claimed victory
on behalf of law enforcement. But attorneys representing
civil libertarians and defense attorneys said the high courts
decision still affords some protections for citizens from undue government intrusion.
Dean I. Schneider, a Red Bank lawyer who represents an
Asbury Park man at the center of the telephone case, said
the decision appears to be a compromise by the high court.
It really is cutting the baby in half, he said, claiming
partial victory.
In the divided court ruling in the case of Gary Lunsford,
25, of Asbury Park, the justices knocked down the requirement that police show probable cause of a crime before a
judge grants a warrant. Police will still have to go before a
judge, but authorities will have to show that the information
is relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation, and not have to meet the higher probable cause standard needed for other search warrants.
Acting Attorney General Porrino said, This is an impor-

MANCHESTER - Township police shot and killed an

18-year-old Toms River man who authorities say was
brandishing a knife and threatening suicide.
The man was identified as 18-year-old Limichael
Shine of Toms River, officials with the Ocean County
Prosecutors Office confirmed Monday morning. It was
the third fatal police-involved shooting in Ocean County this year.
Township police went to a Robin Street home shortly
before 2 p.m. Sunday, responding to a report of a suicidal man, according to Capt. Jack Sramaty, who heads up
the county prosecutors Special Operations Group.
According to police, Shine had been cleaning the
home with his mother and had contacted 911 stating
that he wanted a police officer to respond to his location
and that he ... was going to commit suicide.
Sramaty said that Shine had a large knife when police arrived.
Mr. Shine asked the responding officers to shoot

ATTORNEY

Suzette Detulio knows the pain of the Khan family.

A Gold Star mother, her son Ryan Christensen took
ill while serving in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom and died on Thanksgiving Day 2005 while receiving treatment in the United States.
Detulio, 55, of Brick, said she was dismayed by jabs
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had
been taking at the family of a war hero U.S. Army
Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim American who was
killed in a car bomb attack in Iraq in 2004.
No matter what nationality or religion you have
good and bad. As far as the Khan family, their son died
for our country. I stand behind whoever would fight for
our country, because I also lost my son, she said.
Detulio was part of a torrent of criticism from
See TRUMP, Page 7A

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