178 Md. App. 428 - Stone v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions

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1. “[Stone] did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in his location in the public, and, more specifically, in a vehicle riding on public roads, and therefore evidence about the use of the GPS device ... merely to locate him in public, which just as well could have been done by human-visualization — though less efficiently — was not relevant to [his] Fourth Amendment-based suppression motion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Stephens

2. “The GPS tracking device [and `ping' information] in the case at bar is simply the next generation of tracking science and technology from the radio transmitter `beeper' in Knotts , to which the Knotts Fourth Amendment analysis directly applies.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 420 N.J. Super. 583 - State v. Earls

3. “[w]hen [defendant] traveled over the public streets he voluntarily conveyed to anyone who wanted to look the fact that he was traveling over particular roads in a particular direction. . . and the fact of his final destination”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 420 N.J. Super. 583 - State v. Earls