U.S. v. Maynard, No. 08-3030 (D.C. Cir.) (615 F.3d 544) (August 6, 2010) (Judge Douglas Ginsburg)
Loaded on Aug. 9, 2010
published in Punch and Jurists
August 09, 2010
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Warrantless Searches.
Here the D.C. Circuit became the first Federal Appellate Court to hold that the police need a warrant, based on probable cause, to use a GPS tracking device on a vehicle to track a person’s movements for an extended period of time.
In an important ruling about the …
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