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W.D.La.: Court order activating leased vehicle's OnStar GPS was reasonable

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Defendant leased a Tahoe from Enterprise, and it was equipped with OnStar. The government got a court order to monitor the GPS in the vehicle to see where he was. That court order did not violate the Fourth Amendment or any reasonable expectation of privacy. United States v. Dantzler, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 68753 (W.D. La. June 16, 2010): Applying the foregoing considerations to the case at bar, it is manifest that Dantzler did not enjoy a reasonable expectation of privacy in the movement of his rented vehicle on public thoroughfares. The OnStar system revealed no more information than what law enforcement officers could have observed from constant surveillance of the vehicle from the time that it was rented in Houston until the time of the stop...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on July 14, 2010 (boomark / email).