drug-detection-canine

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
18-9050 Roland Kailihiwa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment canine-alert contamination drug-detection drug-detection-canine expert-testimony probable-cause residual-odor search-and-seizure search-warrant training Police trained Mervin, a drug-detection canine, to alert on minimal residual odor. In accord with that training, Mervin often alerted on parcels conta…
18-7043 Coleman Tuton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine commercial-passenger-bus drug-detection-canine fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine luggage probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search I. Does the general alert of a drug-detection canine to the luggage compartment of a commercial passenger bus —but not to any particular piece of lugg…