Difference between revisions of "GPS Evidence and the Fourth Amendment"

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Since GPS has the power to tell an individual exactly where a tracking device is at any given time, the use of GPS devices has flourished as an investigatory device in many parts of the United States.
 
Since GPS has the power to tell an individual exactly where a tracking device is at any given time, the use of GPS devices has flourished as an investigatory device in many parts of the United States.
  
Local courts are still grappling with whether the use of a GPS device over a long period of time violates a defendant's right to be free of warrantless searches and seizures.
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Local courts are still grappling with whether the use of a GPS device to track a defendant over a long period of time violates a defendant's right to be free of warrantless searches and seizures.
  
 
==GPS and the Fourth Amendment==
 
==GPS and the Fourth Amendment==

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