US Supreme Court Asked To Ponder Drug Dog's Sniff
MIAMI — Franky the drug dog’s supersensitive nose is at the heart of a question being put to the U.S. Supreme Court: Does a police dog’s sniff outside a house give officers the right to get a search warrant for illegal drugs, or is the sniff an unconstitutional search? Florida’s highest state court has said […]
Picked From A Lineup, On A Whiff Of Evidence
By John Schwartz For The New York Times HOUSTON — A dog’s sniff helped put Curvis Bickham in jail for eight months. Now that the case against him has been dropped, he wants to tell the world that the investigative technique that justified his arrest smells to high heaven. The police told Mr. Bickham they […]