United States v. Baez

STAHL, Circuit Judge.

In United States v. Sparks, 711 F.3d 58 (1st Cir.2013), we held that the warrant-less installation of a global positioning system (GPS) device on a defendant’s automobile and the use of that device to monitor his and a co-defendant’s movements for eleven days fell within the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule, because the monitoring had occurred before the Supreme Court decided that the installation and use of a GPS tracker on a car constitutes a Fourth Amendment search. See United States v. Jones, — U.S. —, 132 S.Ct. 945, 181 L.Ed.2d 911 (2012). Today, we are…