I would like to do something perverse with the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Jones: focus on what the court actually held. Scholarly attention has focused on Justice Sotomayor’s concurrence and Justice Alito’s opinion concurring in the judgment, and their apparent willingness to embrace a mosaic theory of sustained observation, and to rethink the third-party doctrine. But in…
Category: Surveillance
U.S. vs Jones
The official decision can be found here. In the course about drug trafficking investigation DC police obtained a warrant to install a GPS tracking device on the car of Antoine Jones. Unfortunately they installed it back in Maryland outside the Lawrence jurisdiction and after the warrant had expired. So the Supreme Court was confronted with the question. Is the…