Legal Opinion
United States v. Sparks
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 26, 2013No. 11-1134, 11-1143PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STAHL, Circuit Judge.
In December 2009, federal agents, acting without a warrant, placed a global positioning system (GPS) tracker on a car used by appellant Craig Sparks. Thé agents used the tracker to locate the car at the scene of a bank robbery and then to chase down the car on the highway after it fled. A search of the car revealed evidence tying Sparks and his fellow appel lant Benjamin Michaud to the bank robbery, leading to their indictment. Sparks and Michaud now appeal the district court’s denial of their motion to suppress that evidence, arguing that, under the Supreme Court’s…
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