United states v jones sotomayor biography

The Supreme Court case which held that the placement and use of an electronic tracking device for 28 days on a suspect’s vehicle through an improperly executed warrant constituted a search under the Fourth Amendment.

(Read opinion here)

This case involved whether an improperly executed warrant used by the FBI to track a suspect’s vehicle via a GPS device for 28 continuous days constituted a “search” under Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.

The Court, in an opinion authored by Justice Scalia and joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kennedy, Thomas, and Sotomayor, held that the electronic tracking device placed on the vehicle at issue, and its resulting use by the Government, met the test for a search under an originalist interpretation of the Fourth Amendment.

In 2004, the defendant in this case, Antoine Jones, came under investigation by the FBI on suspicion of drug trafficking.

A joint task force between the FBI and D.C. Police gathered details