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If it goes that route, even the legality of using of drug sniffing dogs comes into question.
by ScottFree 7y ago
If it goes that route, even the legality of using of drug sniffing dogs comes into question.
- sgustard 7y agoI'd imagine drug dogs sniffing you while you walk down a public street to be unconstitutional. At airports, concert venues, and so on, it seems like you've already consented to being searched.
- chrisdhoover 7y agoThey should be unconstitutional.
- ScottFree 7y agoAccording to whom?
- DINKDINK 7y agoIf the state hasn't shown that an accused has committed a crime before the state trespassed but needs to trespass first to then dig up an ex-post justification for trespassing witch hunts develop.
- ScottFree 7y agoAnd yet, the supreme court has upheld the use of drug sniffing dogs for traffic stops.
- MertsA 7y agoAnd yet, their accuracy is poor to say the least and no objective, informed, reasonable person would conclude that a drug dog scratching someone's paint would be considered probable cause. But here we are.
- DINKDINK 7y agoThe rationale is probably that smelling the air around a car is not trespass.
- ScottFree 7y agoDrug sniffing dogs aren't accurate. You might as well allow the cop to flip a coin and if it comes up heads he has probable cause to search the vehicle. Combine that with civil asset forfeiture laws and you have a nasty incentive. Cops have been caught giving their dogs signals to bark so they can seize the car.
- stestagg 7y agoIf the dog had a collar that sprayed you with chalk to indicate you’d been sniffed...