Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Anthony Govan

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided June 4, 2025No. SJC-13600Published

1Opinion of the Court

SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT

COMMONWEALTH vs. ANTHONY GOVAN

Docket:

SJC-13600

Dates:

November 4, 2024 – June 4, 2025

Present:

Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Kafker, Wendlandt, Georges, Dewar, & Wolohojian, JJ.

County:

Suffolk

Keywords:

Global Positioning System Device. Constitutional Law, Search and seizure, Privacy. Search and Seizure, Expectation of privacy. Privacy. Practice, Criminal, Motion to suppress.

Indictments found and returned in the Superior Court Department on February 26, 2021.

A pretrial motion to suppress evidence was heard by Catherine H. Ham, J., and conditional pleas of guilty were accepted by her.

The…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. United States v. JonesSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
  2. Carpenter v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2018
  3. Grady v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 2015
  4. Commonwealth v. Isaiah I.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2007
  5. United States v. Raymond Lee ScottCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2006

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