Whether the Fourth Amendment allows police to extend a traffic stop to conduct a drug sniff without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity

Question Presented This Court has held that under the Fourth Amendment police officers may not extend a traffic stop to conduct a drug sniff of a vehicle’s exterior without having reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. This case poses the question of whether a law enforcement officer in New York may extend a traffic stop to conduct a drug sniff of a vehicle’s exterior without having reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, using a lesser standard of suspicion, founded suspicion, in violation of Fourth Amendment and in direct conflict with this Court’s Precedent. i