| Thursday, 15 March 2012 08:24 |
| PIERRE, S.D. (AP) _ The South Dakota Supreme Court has joined the nation's highest court in requiring police to get a warrant from a judge before using GPS technology to track a suspect. The state Supreme Court's unanimous ruling Thursday overturns a South Dakota man's convictions for possessing marijuana and intending to distribute it. Aberdeen police attached a GPS tracking device to Elmer Wayne Zahn's vehicle and determined he often visited storage units. They then got a search warrant and found marijuana in one of the storage units. The high court says the use of the GPS tracking device without a warrant violated Zahn's constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure. The South Dakota justices say that means evidence seized from the storage unit cannot be used against Zahn. (Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) |

