{"id":1121,"date":"2011-04-26T08:11:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T12:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/blog_news\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2011-04-26T08:11:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T12:11:31","slug":"doj-asks-supreme-court-to-rule-cops-can-track-suspect-by-gps-without-a-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/2011\/04\/26\/doj-asks-supreme-court-to-rule-cops-can-track-suspect-by-gps-without-a-warrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Police Track Suspect by GPS Without a Warrant?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can Police Track Suspect by GPS Without a Warrant?<\/h1>\n

Is this a Violation of the Fourth Amendment Rights Regarding Search and Seizure?<\/h2>\n

The U.S. Justice Department<\/strong> is asking the U.S. Supreme Court<\/strong> to overturn a federal appeals court decision requiring police to get a warrant before attaching a global positioning device (GPS) to a suspect\u2019s car.\u00a0 Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal urged the Supreme Court to grant cert (review of lower court’s decision) to resolve a circuit split, according to the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Justice denied?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At issue is whether use of the device is a \u201csearch\u201d under the Fourth Amendment<\/strong> and whether a person has an expectation of privacy [important]”right to privacy” not a constitutional guarantee but is considered as generally guaranteed as an expectation[\/important]for his travel in public. The police used a GPS device to record the movements of accused cocaine dealer Antoine Jones, including his trips to a stash house where police found cocaine and $850,000 in cash. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit overturned<\/strong> Jones\u2019 conviction because police did not get a warrant<\/strong>.The government contends the GPS device can be installed under a 1983 Supreme Court case, United States v. Knotts<\/span>, which allowed police to install a beeper device in a can of chemical used to make drugs.\u00a0 But that’s hardly the same as a person’s automobile, is it?<\/p>\n

No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy Says Government<\/h3>\n

There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a person\u2019s movements from one place to another, the government argues in its brief<\/a> posted by Threat Level. The D.C. Circuit said the case did not apply because it involved tracking from one place to another, while the GPS was used to track a person\u2019s movements \u201c24 hours a day for 28 days.\u201dWashington, D.C., lawyer Daniel Prywes calls United States v. Jones \u201cthe seminal privacy case of the 21st Century,\u201d the Post says. He wrote a brief in the case for the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned to this blog for up to date information on this case.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, remember if you or a family member, or friend have been charged with a crime, seek legal advice from a criminal attorney<\/a> immediately.<\/p>\n

The US Supreme Court granted the petition for review of this case\u00a0 June 27, 2011<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can Police Track Suspect by GPS Without a Warrant? Is this a Violation of the Fourth Amendment Rights Regarding Search and Seizure? The U.S. Justice Department is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court decision requiring police to get a warrant before attaching a global positioning device (GPS) to a suspect\u2019s car.\u00a0 Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal urged the Supreme Court to grant cert (review of lower court’s decision) to resolve a circuit split, according to the Washington Post. At issue is whether use of the device is a \u201csearch\u201d under the Fourth Amendment and whether a person has an expectationRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[96,97,112,113,165,176,266,293,295,312,334],"yst_prominent_words":[1711,453,1705,1697,1704,1708,1706,1702,1709,1699,1703,863,1700,1696,1701,1707,1500,1710,903,1698],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-1121","6":"format-standard","7":"category-criminal-law","8":"post_tag-constitution","9":"post_tag-constitutional-rights","10":"post_tag-criminal-law-tennessee","11":"post_tag-changes-criminal-law-tennessee","12":"post_tag-fourth-amendment","13":"post_tag-gps-tracking","14":"post_tag-police-procedure","15":"post_tag-right-to-privacy","16":"post_tag-search-and-siezure","17":"post_tag-supreme-court-cases","18":"post_tag-warrant"},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Todd Couvillon","author_link":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"hoot-small-preview":false,"hoot-large-preview":false,"hoot-medium-preview":false,"hoot-wide":false,"hoot-extra-wide":false,"hoot-boxcontent":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Todd Couvillon","author_link":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"Can Police Track Suspect by GPS Without a Warrant? Is this a Violation of the Fourth Amendment Rights Regarding Search and Seizure? The U.S. Justice Department is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court decision requiring police to get a warrant before attaching a global positioning device (GPS) to a suspect\u2019s…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}