WASHINGTON—A federal judge is allowing prosecutors to use
evidence in a drug conspiracy conviction that had been
overturned because police used a global positioning system
without a warrant.  U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle in
Washington said in a ruling Thursday that Antoine Jones had not
established that police would not have discovered the house in
Fort Washington, Md., allegedly used to stash money and drugs
but for the GPS. She ruled that, "to the contrary," police had
identified the property as a likely "stash house" before the GPS
was attached to his car.  In 2010, an appeals court reversed
Jones' conviction because police used the GPS to track him. The
Supreme Court affirmed, agreeing to bar police from installing
GPS technology to track suspects without getting a judge's
approval.