NO. SJC-10824 PURSUANT TO GLC 211, 5 3 FROM ... - Mass Cases
NO. SJC-10824 PURSUANT TO GLC 211, 5 3 FROM ... - Mass Cases
NO. SJC-10824 PURSUANT TO GLC 211, 5 3 FROM ... - Mass Cases
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States government retains sole authority and<br />
control over the Global Positioning System, which<br />
is maintained by the United States military under<br />
the authority of the Secretary of Defense. Federal<br />
Statute Title 10, c. 136, 5 2281. (Addendum, p. 10-12).<br />
Thus, when GPS technology is used by locaL law<br />
enforcement and state agencies, pursuant to G.L.c.<br />
265, 5 47 (intrusion by the state), and the state<br />
physically attaches the GPS devise to the body of<br />
a person (electronic fetters), that person is deemed<br />
"SEIZED", and the body of the person himself becomes<br />
the host property of the electronic device (GPS)<br />
used by the state to continuously monitor, track,<br />
and record personal data on the locations,movements,<br />
and activities oE convicted sex offenders, which<br />
implicates state sanction seizures that impinge<br />
upon a person's constitutional rights under the<br />
Fourth Amendment and Art. 14. 7/ commonwealth V.<br />
Cory, 454 <strong>Mass</strong>. 559 (2009); and Commonwealth V.<br />
Raposo, 453 <strong>Mass</strong>. 739 (2009).<br />
7/ See Richard G. Wright, Symposium: Parole and<br />
Probation: Sex Offender Post-Incarceration<br />
Sanctions: Are There Any Limits? (zoo$), New<br />
England Journal On Criminal and Civil Confine-<br />
ment; and R.J. Parker, Case Gommment: Common-<br />
wealth v. Morasse n. 1: Elome Confinement: Stret-<br />
ching the Limits On Restricting a Probationer's<br />
Liberty. (2008), New England Journal On Criminal<br />
and Civil Confinement.<br />
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