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Supreme Court upholds police "dog sniff" of truck [View all]
Source: Reuters
Supreme Court upholds police "dog sniff" of truck
By Jonathan Stempel
WASHINGTON | Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:09am EST
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously upheld a trained police dog's search of a truck for evidence, saying that training and testing records had established the dog's reliability and given the police probable cause.
The case was one of two the court has been considering this term about the validity of evidence obtained by drug-sniffing dogs and had been watched closely by criminal defense advocates.
At issue was the work of Aldo, a German shepherd whose "free air sniff" helped his police handler find methamphetamine ingredients inside Clayton Harris' pickup truck after it had been pulled over in Liberty County, Florida, in 2006.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote that the police officer reasonably believed there was contraband inside the truck after Aldo gave off an alert to its contents.
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By Jonathan Stempel
WASHINGTON | Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:09am EST
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously upheld a trained police dog's search of a truck for evidence, saying that training and testing records had established the dog's reliability and given the police probable cause.
The case was one of two the court has been considering this term about the validity of evidence obtained by drug-sniffing dogs and had been watched closely by criminal defense advocates.
At issue was the work of Aldo, a German shepherd whose "free air sniff" helped his police handler find methamphetamine ingredients inside Clayton Harris' pickup truck after it had been pulled over in Liberty County, Florida, in 2006.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote that the police officer reasonably believed there was contraband inside the truck after Aldo gave off an alert to its contents.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/19/us-usa-court-dog-sniffs-idUSBRE91I0RB20130219
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