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Supreme Court says police need warrant for GPS tracking - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/high-court-police-gps-device-car-search-153740999.html - broken link)
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The high court ruling was a defeat for the Obama administration, which had argued that a warrant was not required to use global positioning system devices to monitor a vehicle on public streets.
Supreme Court says police need warrant for GPS tracking - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/high-court-police-gps-device-car-search-153740999.html - broken link)
b-b-but the terrorists!
Duplicate thread, and the defeat was for the Bush administration who put the tracking device on in 2004. The current Administration is required to defend the suit in court once the case is active.
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In 2004, the FBI and D.C. police began investigating Jones, a night club owner, for trafficking narcotics. Authorities applied in 2005, before a D.C. court, to track the car owned by Jones’s wife. According to the court, the warrant was issued with a 10-day time horizon.
But authorities did not install it until the 11th day, and they did it outside of Washington, D.C. They ultimately tracked Jones’s movements for 28 days, collecting evidence that led to a number of charges on possession and more. With Jones facing a life sentence, a legal battle ensued over whether the GPS evidence was admissible in those proceedings. The Supreme Court took the case last year.
If you don't think they threw the case, the Solicitor General told the SCOTUS it could put tracking devices on their cars w/out a warrant as well.
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The government had told the high court that it could affix GPS devices on the vehicles of all members of the Supreme Court, without a warrant.
The Supreme Court has delivered a big win for privacy in U.S. v. Jones. That’s the case in which government agents placed a GPS device on a car and used it to track a person round-the-clock for four weeks. The question before the Court was whether the government may do this in the absence of a valid warrant. All nine justices say No.
Supreme Court says police need warrant for GPS tracking - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/high-court-police-gps-device-car-search-153740999.html - broken link)
b-b-but the terrorists!
Why would BHPH Car Dealerships NOT use them? If the customers make there payments when there scheduled to do, then there are no interuptions. Then when the last payment is due, the BHPH does a FREE oil change, and remove the GPS. That easy..
Good decision. Too many people would have been unhappy if the results were to be different.
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