GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ)- A Brown County judge has ruled that prosecutors will be allowed to use tracking data from George Burch’s cellphone in his upcoming trial.
Burch is accused of killing Nicole VanderHeyden back in 2016 in Bellevue.
Prosecutors say the data would be used to place Burch at certain locations having to do with the murder, including the bar where she was last seen alive, outside her residence where police reported that she was murdered and the field where he body was found.
The defense argued that Burch’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated with how law enforcement seized the data. They say the Brown County Sheriff’s Department got the information from the Green Bay Police Department investigatoy file from an unrelated hit-and-run crash.
Jury selection for the trial is scheduled for Friday.
