+Alphatexana Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 The Associated Press reports that Scott Peterson's defense lawyer will try to convince the judge in Peterson's double-murder case that global positioning technology is "inaccurate and unreliable." Apparently Peterson was tracked by Global Positioning System devices placed by police in vehicles he drove after his wife, Laci, disappeared on Christmas Eve in 2002. Geragos wants all the GPS tracking evidence excluded from the trial. Geragos claims in court papers, "the GPS technology has not been generally accepted by the scientific community." "We all know from how much we use GPS now that it's quite accurate," said Mark Hutchins, senior deputy district attorney in Alameda County. "Airplanes use it. Everyone's got a GPS map thing in their car." The article contains this quote: Legal experts said he faces an uphill battle, since the technology has been in use for many years by airline pilots and even hikers to pinpoint locations to within a few feet, using signals bounced off satellites. Here's the complete article. Link to comment
+Stunod Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=64490 Link to comment
+CO Admin Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=64490 Closing this thread as it is the third about the same topic. the other 2 were merged into the one quoted above CO Admin Link to comment
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