Brief filed: 11/13/2012
Documents
United States v. Katzin
3rd Circuit Court of Appeals; Case No. 12-2548
Prior Decision
Decision below, Criminal Action No. 11-226, 2012 WL 1646894 (E.D. Pa. May 9, 2012).
Argument(s)
Tracking a car by physically attaching a GPS device to it requires a warrant based on probable cause, without exception. The District Court correctly applied the exclusionary rule because the FBI agents did not rely on binding appellate precedent.
Author(s)
Ben Wizner, Catherine Crump, and Nathan Wessler, American Civil Liberties Foundation, New York, NY; Witold J. Walczak and Sara J. Rose, ACLU Foundation of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA; Hanni Fakhoury and Marcia Hoffman, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA; and Peter Goldberger, Ardmore, PA, for NACDL.