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InvisibleLe_Canard
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(Wash. D.C.) Court Reverses Drug Conviction in GPS Case
    #13013532 - 08/06/10 05:05 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Houston Chronicle (AP)

By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer  © 2010 The Associated Press
Aug. 6, 2010, 4:59PM


WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday reversed a man's drug conviction because authorities failed to get a warrant for a global positioning system device that tracked his movements for a month.

Lawyers for the defendant, Antoine Jones, successfully argued that police violated the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches with the GPS system they installed on his car.

In a 3-0 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that the use of the GPS device was a search and that the GPS data were essential to the government's case.

"By combining GPS information with Jones's cell-phone records, the government was able to paint a picture of Jones' movements that gave credibilty to the allegation that he was involved in drug trafficking," said the decision by Appeals Judge Douglas Ginsburg.

The judges concluded that the police action was a search that first required a warrant because it defeated Jones' reasonable expectation of privacy.

Jones, who was owner of a Washington, D.C. nightclub, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base.

In closing arguments to the jury, a prosecutor made use of the GPS data, arguing that it showed the defendant going to a certain address and that "there's no reason anyone goes there other than drug activity."

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Re: (Wash. D.C.) Court Reverses Drug Conviction in GPS Case [Re: Le_Canard]
    #13013624 - 08/06/10 05:23 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Good for that guy...no wait, damn. Hes a crack dealer.

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Re: (Wash. D.C.) Court Reverses Drug Conviction in GPS Case [Re: mukhail]
    #13013932 - 08/06/10 06:24 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Lawl.


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Re: (Wash. D.C.) Court Reverses Drug Conviction in GPS Case [Re: whatever123]
    #13014486 - 08/06/10 08:35 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

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"By combining GPS information with Jones's cell-phone records, the government was able to paint a picture of Jones' movements that gave credibilty to the allegation that he was involved in drug trafficking,"




AKA they had no actual proof he was runnin dope games so they had to pull this GPS grey area move out of their asses. They probably saw it on the wire and thought it was a good idea.


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Re: (Wash. D.C.) Court Reverses Drug Conviction in GPS Case [Re: mukhail]
    #13014931 - 08/06/10 10:22 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

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mukhail said:
Good for that guy...no wait, damn. Hes a crack dealer.




Well, if the cops had gotten away with it with a crack dealer, they'd have started trying that with the weed folks in other states and towns, maybe YOUR town. And of course, being pigs, they'd abuse the hell out of this, so this is good news for anyone who uses psychotropic substances of any type.

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