{"id":3472,"date":"2014-04-14T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2019-12-29T11:49:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T11:49:10","slug":"monitoring-gps-device-without-warrant-violation-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/monitoring-gps-device-without-warrant-violation-fourth-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring of GPS Device Without a Warrant Was Not a Violation of the Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7<sup>th<\/sup> Circuit in Chicago has affirmed the decision of a district court judge regarding the conviction of Henry R. Brown. Brown was convicted after a jury trial of conspiring to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine and was sentenced to life imprisonment because of his prior convictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On appeal, Brown argued that the district court should have prevented the prosecutor from introducing information obtained from a GPS system that law enforcement officers attached to a car in 2006.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It turned out that the car the GPS unit was attached to was owned by one of Brown\u2019s confederates, Kevin Arms.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Arms alerted police that Troy Lewis was driving the vehicle to Milwaukee to deliver 10 kilograms of cocaine for Arms, Brown and their co-conspirators.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The police used the GPS device to locate the Jeep and perform a stop in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofracine.org\/\">Racine, Wis., <\/a>where the drugs were discovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At Brown\u2019s trial, Lewis and Arms testified against him.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Brown argued that the installation of the GPS should be considered reasonable only if the police first obtained a warrant with probable cause.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The panel rejected that argument.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/monitoring-gps-device-without-warrant-violation-fourth-amendment\/#more-3472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago has affirmed the decision of a district court judge regarding the conviction of Henry R. 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