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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R, Governmental GPS monitoring tracking,<br />
i<br />
and surveillance of Aldrich s movements<br />
and activities, pursuant to G.L.c. 265,<br />
5 47, violated Aldrich's fundamental<br />
constitutional rights under the 5th and<br />
14th Amendments and Art. 12 to his personal<br />
"Freedom" and "Liberty".<br />
The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the<br />
United States Constitution guarantees a fundamental<br />
right t o its citizens that no person shall be deprived<br />
of his or her "liberty" without "due process of law."<br />
Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, U.S. Gonst. (Adden-<br />
dum, p. 3 and 6).<br />
Article 12 of the <strong>Mass</strong>achusetts Constitution<br />
Declaration of Rights provide a similar fundamental<br />
state constitutional right that no citizen of the<br />
state of <strong>Mass</strong>achusetts shall be "deprived of his ...<br />
liberty," without due process of law. Art, 12 Decla-<br />
ration of Rights, <strong>Mass</strong>. Const. (Addendum, p. 7).<br />
Fundamental rights either explicitly or impli-<br />
citly arise from the United States Constitution. See<br />
LaCava v. Lucander, 58 <strong>Mass</strong>.App.Ct. 527, 533 (2003).<br />
Here, Aldrich allege that the enforcement of<br />
a GPS device upon him, pursuant to G.L.c..265, 9 47,<br />
violated his fundamental rights to be free from<br />
physical restraints. See Dutil, Petitioner, 437 <strong>Mass</strong>.<br />
9 (2002)("freedom from governmental restraint lies<br />
at the heart of our system of government ..."); and