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Article: Secret attachment of GPS device constitutional, rules Wisconsin Court of Appeals
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- Lawyers USA
- Article date:
- May 11, 2009
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No Fourth Amendment violation occurred when police attached a
Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking device to the outside of a
defendant's vehicle, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals has ruled.
After obtaining a warrant, police secretly attached a GPS device
to the outside of the defendant's car in order to track it. Based
partly on tracking information retrieved from the GPS device, the
police obtained a warrant to search the defendant's residence and
his car.
The search revealed additional evidence incriminating the
defendant.
He was convicted of aggravated stalking, but moved to suppress
the admission of ...