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Article: GPS devices help prosecutors win convictions
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- August 29, 2008
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Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a GPS unit in his
Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably didn't
expect that prosecutors would eventually use it too - to help
convict him of killing four family members.
Prosecutors in suburban Chicago analyzed data from the Garmin GPS
device to pinpoint where Hanson had been on the morning after his
parents were fatally shot and his sister and brother-in-law
bludgeoned to death in 2005. He was convicted of the killings
earlier this year and sentenced to death.
Hanson's trial was among recent criminal cases around the country
in which authorities used GPS navigation devices to help establish a
defendant's whereabouts. Experts ...