State v. Johnson (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} Sudinia Johnson appeals from a judgment of the Twelfth District Court of Appeals which affirmed his conviction for trafficking in cocaine and held that the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule permitted the admission of evidence obtained from a global-positioning-system (“GPS”) tracking device that Detective Mike Hackney had placed on Johnson’s vehicle without obtaining a search warrant.

{¶ 2} The United States Supreme Court crafted the exclusionary rule to deter violations of the rights guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, but it has recognized…