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Michael Buchanan
Michael Buchanan
Michael Buchanan is a practicing criminal defense attorney in Gainesville, Flori
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Mon, 23 January 2012
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U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Backs Privacy Rights In GPS Tracking Case
In a rare unanimous decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled on January 23, 2012, in U.S. v Antoine Jones, that attaching a GPS device to a suspect’s vehicle is a search under the Fourth Amendment. In one of the first major cases to test constitutional privacy rights in the digital age, the court ruled that police must obtain a search warrant before attaching a GPS tracker to a vehicle in a criminal investigation.
