Re: Satellite Tracking of Suspects Requires a Warrant, Court Rules

2003-09-12 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:05 PM 9/12/2003 -0700, John Young wrote: The agents who installed the criminal tracking device and interpreted (doctored) the data, were in the courtroom and smiled broadly at Jim's futile challenge of conventional wisdom. It is possible that there was no device and the whole rig was made up

Re: Satellite Tracking of Suspects Requires a Warrant, Court Rules

2003-09-12 Thread John Young
Yes, GPS tracking was allegedly done to Jim, and its illegality is one of the points of his appeal. He claims that the legal basis for installing the device and data-spotting his movements were flawed. And that there were problems as well with interpretation of the data. Jim tried to argue this