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Sentenced To Surveillance: Fourth Amendment Limits On Electronic Monitoring, Kate Weisburd
Sentenced To Surveillance: Fourth Amendment Limits On Electronic Monitoring, Kate Weisburd
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
As courts and legislatures increasingly recognize that “digital is different” and attempt to limit government surveillance of private data, one group is conspicuously excluded from this new privacy-protective discourse: the five million people in the United States on probation, parole, or other forms of community supervision. This Article is the first to explore how warrantless electronic surveillance is dramatically transforming community supervision and, as a result, amplifying a growing privacy-protection disparity: those in the criminal legal system are increasingly losing privacy protections even while those not in the system are increasingly gaining privacy protections. The quickly expanding use of GPS-equipped …
Fourth Amendment Pragmatism, Daniel J. Solove
Fourth Amendment Pragmatism, Daniel J. Solove
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
In this essay, Professor Solove argues that the Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy test should be abandoned. Instead of engaging in a fruitless game of determining whether privacy is invaded, the United States Supreme Court should adopt a more pragmatic approach to the Fourth Amendment and directly face the issue of how to regulate government information gathering. There are two central questions in Fourth Amendment analysis: (1) The Coverage Question - Does the Fourth Amendment provide protection against a particular form of government information gathering? and (2) The Procedure Question - How should the Fourth Amendment regulate this form …
Liberty Takings: A Framework For Compensating Pretrial Detainees, Jeffrey Manns
Liberty Takings: A Framework For Compensating Pretrial Detainees, Jeffrey Manns
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This Article shows how the application of a takings paradigm to pretrial detention can mitigate the distorted incentives which shape bail hearings and plea bargaining. The case for compensating pretrial detainees poses challenges because the existence of probable cause of having committed a criminal offense combined with the presence of other risk factors formally legitimizes bail hearing decisions. However, this Article analogizes the taking of people to the taking of property to argue that pretrial detention constitutes a liberty taking which inflicts punishment on unconvicted defendants and creates incentives for false pleas and other perversions of justice. While society faces …