The Pennsylvania Superior Court has issued two opinions that will guide state courts in ruling on evidence uncovered after law enforcement officers use global positioning system devices to track criminal suspects.
The decisions establish Pennsylvania precedent on the use of GPS tracking devices, accommodating the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in U.S. v. Jones last year. In Jones, the nation’s highest court ruled that the installation of a GPS device to track a suspect’s vehicle constituted a "search" under the Fourth Amendment and, in that particular case, it violated privacy rights protected by the same.
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