United States v. Barraza-Maldonado

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PATRICK J. SCHILTZ, District Judge.

Defendant Edgar Rafael Barraza-Maldonado is charged with one count of possessing cocaine with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(A). Relying on the Supreme Court’s recent decision in United States v. Jones, — U.S. -, 132 S.Ct. 945, 181 L.Ed.2d 911 (2012), Barraza moves to suppress all of the evidence obtained as a result of law enforcement’s warrantless installation of a Global Positioning System (“GPS”) device on a 2006 Nissan Maxima (“Maxima”) and law enforcement’s use of that device to track…