Difference between revisions of "GPS Evidence and the Fourth Amendment"
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The court rejected the government's contention that Knotts was binding precedent. They distinguished Knotts by concluding that the kind of comprehensive, sustained monitoring that comes from GPS use was of a different nature than the beeper information in Knotts and that the information gleaned from the GPS unit was not in fact "public": | The court rejected the government's contention that Knotts was binding precedent. They distinguished Knotts by concluding that the kind of comprehensive, sustained monitoring that comes from GPS use was of a different nature than the beeper information in Knotts and that the information gleaned from the GPS unit was not in fact "public": | ||
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The court then looked at the second step, whether the defendant's expectation of privacy was "reasonable.": | The court then looked at the second step, whether the defendant's expectation of privacy was "reasonable.": | ||
