Virginia Supreme Court hears
appeal in case over police use of GPS tracking
RICHMOND, Va. —
A lawyer for a sex offender asked the Virginia Supreme Court to reverse his
client’s conviction, arguing that evidence in the case was inadmissible because
police illegally used an electronic tracking device to monitor the man’s
movements without first obtaining a search warrant.
Christopher
Leibig told the court Thursday that the Virginia Court of Appeals wrongly
upheld David Foltz’s conviction in Fairfax County in 2008 of abduction with
intent to defile.
The U.S.
Supreme Court ruled this January that police cannot install GPS technology to
track suspects without a warrant.
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