Re:EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth A...
by gozur88 on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @08:19PM
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There are two objections. One based on the article one prohibition of ex post facto laws, and another based on a 4th amendment prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure.
The problem here is the sentence was already handed down by the judge, and the law seeks to retroactively add to it. If a judge handed down a sentence that included the monitoring as part of the sentence it probably passes constitutional muster.
The problem here is the sentence was already handed down by the judge, and the law seeks to retroactively add to it. If a judge handed down a sentence that included the monitoring as part of the sentence it probably passes constitutional muster.