Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī (Sep 2014)
Illegal use of GPS by Police; a Manifestation of Privacy Violation in the Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of the United States
Abstract
Tracking the vehicles traffic by GPS is usual behaviors of the police in the United States. Police Track the vehicle traffic suspected of carrying drug Antony Jones by connecting the device to his car registered Tracker records without a license of court. Although the trial Court never recognized this behavior as violation of Antony Jones, but Appeal Court took this behavior as violation of Jones' privacy and have been reversed his conviction because of the illegality of its. Police appeal from U.S Supreme Court, But Supreme Court confirms the Appeal Court procedure. This issue is due to the increasing reliance GPS to prosecution, discover and collect evidences against suspects. The main research question is the legal validity of this kind of suspect prosecution's evidences? Research method is a description and analysis of the content of the judicial verdicts in this article. These procedures meet the valuable achievements that this article by Analysis of the content of the verdicts with indicators such as; the legal criteria for inspection, the cause of the behavior, or illegal inspection, cause standards of inspection or licensure have been extracted and identified as the basis for the formation of these procedures is acceptation and justification.
