{"id":8458,"date":"2013-03-06T07:36:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T17:28:43","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8458","title":{"rendered":"BLT: Antoine Jones of GPS case fame gets 6-6 hung jury; no GPS used against him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blog of the Legal Times: Judge Declares Mistrial in Drug Case at Center of Landmark Supreme Court Ruling<\/a><\/p>\n

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For the U.S. Justice Department, the third time wasn’t the charm in the high-profile drug prosecution of Washington nightclub owner Antoine Jones. A federal judge today declared a mistrial, the latest setback for the government after a loss in the U.S. Supreme Court last year.<\/p>\n

The trial was the third for Jones, who represented himself, and the government after an earlier mistrial in 2007 and then last year’s historic Supreme Court ruling that voided Jones’s life sentence. The high court concluded the warrantless use of a tracking device violated Jones’ rights under the Fourth Amendment, a ruling whose scope is being assessed in courts across the country.<\/p>\n

In the third trial, the government was prohibited from using the GPS tracking device data to try to connect Jones to a house in Maryland where the authorities, in 2005, found hundreds of thousands of dollars in cocaine and cash. Jones in recent weeks filed numerous handwritten motions that questioned court orders and government evidence.<\/p>\n

Jurors last week told U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle in Washington several times that the panel was deadlocked. (The panel, in the end, was split 6-6.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

WaPo: DC nightclub owner Antoine Jones to be retried for 4th time on drug conspiracy charges<\/a> by Associated Press:<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 A D.C. nightclub owner charged with drug conspiracy whose case went to the U.S. Supreme Court will be tried a fourth time.<\/p>\n

A government prosecutor said Tuesday at a court hearing that Antoine Jones will be retried after a jury couldn\u2019t reach a verdict during his third trial. The trial followed a victory for Jones at the U.S Supreme Court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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