Arizona V. Jones 132 S. 332 Case Study

Part 2: Arizona v. Gant 556 U.S. 332 and United States v. Jones 132 S.Ct. 945

The exclusionary rule forbids any use of testimony or evidence that is obtained in violation. There are four exceptions; good faith exception, attenuation doctrine, independent source doctrine and the inevitable discovery rule. This rule was established in 1914 with the Supreme Court case Weeks v. United States. The Supreme court ruled that there had been illegal evidence against Weeks. The evidence was acquired without a warrant. After four years the Supreme Court added another rule of evidence, this was known as the fruit of the poisoned tree. This doctrine states that any evidence attained from an illegal arrest, search or interrogation is not permissible. Arizona v. Gant 556 U.S 332, this cases deals with the exclusionary rule and good faith exception. Good faith exception allows law enforcement to obtain evidence who rely on a search warrant. Arizona made an arrest on Rodney …show more content…
Jones 132 S.Ct. 945, an owner of a nightclub, Antoine Jones. Suspected of trafficking illegal substances, police investigations already had a great amount of information gathered. With the amount of information they had, the police were able to get approved to get a warrant to place a GPS tracking device onto Jones's wife's vehicle which he happened to be the primary driver of. 10 days was the limit that the police had to put the tracker on. In order for them to install it, it had to be installed in the District of Columbia. They were not able to install the device until the 11th day, at this time the vehicle already happened to be in Maryland. 28 days later after still using the device they had over 2000 pages of data. When Jones was indicted his attorney also filed a motion to repress the evidence that was gathered using the tracking device. The court decided that the installation did not constitute a search and the reason being is that the requirements of the warrant were not

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