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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

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