United States v. Berry

MEMORANDUM

LEGG, Chief Judge.

On January 21, 2004, the Court issued a brief Order denying Defendant Alric Berry’s (“Berry”) Motion to Suppress Evidence. The Court now writes to explain its ruling.

I. BACKGROUND

On April 9, 2003, Judge Thomas Bollinger of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County authorized the placement for sixty days of an electronic tracking device on a car owned by Monika Hill (“Hill”), Berry’s former co-defendant. On April 9th, armed with the court order, police placed a global positioning system (“GPS”) under the bumper of Hill’s Mercedes Benz. The GPS provided the police with…