Comments on: United States Supreme Court to Review GPS Tracking Case? http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/?p=2144 UNC School of Government Blog Fri, 17 May 2013 17:25:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Richie Rich http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/?p=2144&cpage=1#comment-3660 Richie Rich Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:57:18 +0000 http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=2144#comment-3660 Sarge: Let me try : If you can get a warrant, get one. In ALL cases. a warrant is better in all ways . Police often see warrants as a pain in the neck because of the amount of probable cause needed…although these days not
a lot seems to disqualify an affidavit…but I digress ;

If you are turned down for the warrant , do NOT just slap the unit on and hope it passes muster down the road when this is hashed out…the Rights of
the People are far more important than catching every crook , or monitoring
the moves of anyone deemed suspicious.

It is not a stretch to imagine a day when the police are demanding a GPS
on ALL cars and then they could simply pull up a name and find out all about them…Big Brother should never mean anything more than the name of Janis Joplins band.i

]]> By: Sgt. Keith Childers http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/?p=2144&cpage=1#comment-3655 Sgt. Keith Childers Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:08:06 +0000 http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=2144#comment-3655 Pardon the confusion on my part. Is it now suggested to obtain a warrant before applying a GPS unit just to be safe?

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