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--- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:16:14 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Tracking suspect via GPS requires warrant, Wash. court rules Tracking suspect via GPS requires warrant, Wash. court rules By Paul Queary, Associated Press, 9/12/2003 OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Police cannot attach a Global Positioning System tracker to a suspect's vehicle without a warrant, the Washington Supreme Court declared yesterday in the first such ruling in the nation. The court, however, refused to overturn the murder conviction of William Bradley Jackson, who unknowingly led police to the shallow grave of his 9-year-old daughter in 1999. Spokane County deputies had a warrant for the GPS tracking device used in that case, although prosecutors argued they did not need one. ... http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/255/nation/Tracking_suspect_via_GPS_requires_warrant_Wash_court_rules+.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------