Professor Joh Cited in Fourth Amendment Case from South Carolina Supreme Court
Scholarship from Professor Elizabeth Joh is cited by the South Carolina Supreme Court in a case regarding evidence discovered as a result of GPS tracking and a traffic stop.
In State v. Adams, the South Carolina Supreme Court held that the police could not rely on the Fourth Amendment's good faith or attenuation exceptions to the exclusionary rule in a case where police had installed a GPS device on the defendant's car without a warrant. After monitoring, the police targeted the defendant's car for a traffic stop. The opinion cited Professor Joh's "Discretionless Policing: Technology and the Fourth Amendment" to conclude that that the state's position would "provide a blueprint for circumventing the protections of the Fourth Amendment."
Professor Joh's scholarship focuses on criminal procedure and policing, with a special emphasis on DNA evidence, undercover policing, and new surveillance technologies.
"Discretionless Policing: Technology and the Fourth Amendment"