The court is scheduled on Wednesday to hear Florida's appeal of two decisions by that state's highest court that found the detection of drugs by trained police dogs had violated the constitutional ban on unreasonable searches and seizures under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
These arguments involve distinctly different issues: whether a dog can sniff outside a home without a warrant, and how qualified a dog must be to do a legitimate sniff.
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If a dog walks thru Grand Central Station and alerts on a citizen who has not given the police ANY reason to suspect him/her of a crime, but the dog says "check him!" (in the dog way), is the subsequent search and arrest valid? Good question.
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