Antoine Jones, Respondent, Jonathan D. Hacker, Counsel of Record
On October 24, 2005, Washington, D.C., police arrested nightclub owner Antoine Jones and charged him with operating a drug-distribution ring. A joint task force of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Washington Metro Police Department had gathered evidence against Jones in part through the use of a Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking device it placed on Jones’s Jeep Grand Cherokee. By tracking Jones, the police were able to identify the location of his stash house, where they would later find approximately 97 kilograms of cocaine and $850,000 in cash. Although law enforcement had obtained a warrant for the device,…
