Thursday, February 11, 2016


Webcam on Utility Pole



(Tennessee Rural Farm)
A federal appeals court is upholding the firearms conviction of a Tennessee man whose brother's rural farm was monitored for 10 weeks straight by a remote-controlled camera the authorities installed on a utility pole 200 yards away—without a warrant.

The decision (PDF) by the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals affirms the nine-year sentence of a man named Rocky Houston, who was caught by the camera as being a felon in possession of a gun. The man was on a Roane County Sheriff's Office watch list after he was cleared of murder charges following a gun battle that left a Roane County law enforcement official dead in 2006.

"There is no Fourth Amendment violation, because Houston had no reasonable expectation of privacy in video footage recorded by a camera that was located on top of a public utility pole and that captured the same views enjoyed by passersby on public roads," Judge John Rogers wrote for the unanimous court, which ruled 3-0 to uphold Houston's 2014 conviction.
OK

2 comments:

Wireless.Phil said...

Janelle Foley, you have her on file, she just got prison.

Foley was sentenced to 2.5-4.5 years in state prison, and has been transported to Framingham to start her sentence. She was given one day of credit for the day she was initially held.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/02/10/weymouth-lunch-lady-pleads-guilty-statutory-rape-janelle-foley/

Wireless.Phil said...

High Arctic once hosted giant flightless bird

"What we know about past warm intervals in the arctic can give us a much better idea about what to expect in terms of changing plant and animal populations there in the future," said researcher Jaelyn Eberle.
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/02/12/High-Arctic-once-hosted-giant-flightless-bird/1801455295804/

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