COMMONWEALTH v. NORMAN

SJC-12744.

484 Mass. 330 (2020)

COMMONWEALTH, v. ERIC NORMAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

March 17, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jamie Michael Charles , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Matthew Spurlock , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Katharine Naples-Mitchell , for Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Matthew R. Segal & Jessie J. Rossman , for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.


This case concerns the admissibility of location data gleaned from a global positioning system (GPS) device imposed on a defendant as a pretrial condition of release. We are called upon to confront a question not present in Commonwealth v. Johnson, 481 Mass. 710...

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