In yet another appeals court ruling that affirms machine-generated evidence is not hearsay, a federal judge has ruled that satellite images produced by Google can be used as evidence in a criminal case.
In January 2013, U.S. border patrol agents arrested Paciano Lizarraga-Tirado in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border and charged him with re-entering the country illegally, after he was removed in 2012. Although Lizarraga-Tirado argued that the agents had crossed into Mexico to make the arrest, one of the arresting agents had recorded the coordinates of the arrest using a handheld GPS device.
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