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Research of U.S. V. Jones
In 2008, Mr. Antoine Jones was arrested because he had illegal drug business. In fact, District of Columbia police agents had secretly put a GPS on his car and found his crime business. The agents only had a warrant with 10 days. After this limited time, the agents decided to continue followed Jones. One mouth later, the agents found Jones had a secret house near the beach, the police also found there had a lot of cocaine and cash. Finally, Jones would be spend his all life in the prison. However, his lawyer pointed out the illegal action by District of Columbia. According to Fourth Amendment, the police has no right to use GPS to follow anyone without warrant. This is what problem is, the warrant had expired and the police had been used the GPS almost a month to follow the suspect. …show more content…
Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court. The Court affirmed the judgment of the lower court, and held that the installation of a GPS tracking device on Jones' vehicle, without a warrant, constituted an unlawful search under the Fourth Amendment. The Court rejected the government's argument that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a person's movement on public thoroughfares and emphasized that the Fourth Amendment provided some protection for trespass onto personal property.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a concurring opinion, agreeing that the government had obtained information by usurping Jones' property and by invading his privacy. However, she further reasoned that the Fourth Amendment was not only concerned with trespasses onto property. She stated that a Fourth Amendment search occurs whenever the government violates a subjective expectation of privacy that society recognizes as reasonable, which is particularly important in an era where physical intrusion is unnecessary to many forms of
Research of U.S. V. Jones
In 2008, Mr. Antoine Jones was arrested because he had illegal drug business. In fact, District of Columbia police agents had secretly put a GPS on his car and found his crime business. The agents only had a warrant with 10 days. After this limited time, the agents decided to continue followed Jones. One mouth later, the agents found Jones had a secret house near the beach, the police also found there had a lot of cocaine and cash. Finally, Jones would be spend his all life in the prison. However, his lawyer pointed out the illegal action by District of Columbia. According to Fourth Amendment, the police has no right to use GPS to follow anyone without warrant. This is what problem is, the warrant had expired and the police had been used the GPS almost a month to follow the suspect. …show more content…
Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court. The Court affirmed the judgment of the lower court, and held that the installation of a GPS tracking device on Jones' vehicle, without a warrant, constituted an unlawful search under the Fourth Amendment. The Court rejected the government's argument that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a person's movement on public thoroughfares and emphasized that the Fourth Amendment provided some protection for trespass onto personal property.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a concurring opinion, agreeing that the government had obtained information by usurping Jones' property and by invading his privacy. However, she further reasoned that the Fourth Amendment was not only concerned with trespasses onto property. She stated that a Fourth Amendment search occurs whenever the government violates a subjective expectation of privacy that society recognizes as reasonable, which is particularly important in an era where physical intrusion is unnecessary to many forms of