People v. LeFlore

This case present question as to whether trial court properly denied defendant’s motion to quash his arrest and suppress evidence that was obtained after police had placed GPS device on his car, where police used signals from said device to determine that defendant was in vicinity of recently robbed gas station. Appellate Court, in reversing defendant’s aggravated robbery conviction, found that placement of GPS device on defendant’s vehicle without obtaining search warrant constituted violation of defendant’s 4th Amendment rights. In its petition for leave to appeal, govt. argued that defendant failed to establish any legitimate expectation of privacy as to location of his vehicle, that defendant’s status as parolee precluded his objection as to any search of his vehicle, and alternatively that good faith exception to exclusionary rule applied.