{"id":37798,"date":"2019-05-23T07:02:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T12:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37798"},"modified":"2019-05-26T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T16:15:00","slug":"co-because-co-has-legalized-recreational-mj-use-of-a-drug-dog-requires-pc-becuase-a-dog-sniff-uncovers-lawful-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37798","title":{"rendered":"CO: Because CO has legalized recreational MJ, use of a drug dog requires PC because a dog sniff uncovers lawful activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because Colorado has legalized possession of small amounts of marijuana, admission of possession of it in a car doesn\u2019t permit a drug dog to sniff the car without probable cause to believe there is an illegal amount in the car. A dog sniff in Colorado would thus detect lawful activity and is a search requiring probable cause. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.state.co.us\/userfiles\/file\/Court_Probation\/Supreme_Court\/Opinions\/2017\/17SC584.pdf\">People v. McKnight<\/a>, 2019 CO 36,  2019 Colo. LEXIS 375 (May 20, 2019); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.state.co.us\/userfiles\/file\/Court_Probation\/Supreme_Court\/Opinions\/2018\/18SA208.pdf\">People v. Gadberry<\/a>, 2019 CO 37, 2019 Colo. LEXIS 373 (May 20, 2019). See NPR: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/05\/26\/727107486\/colorado-court-complicates-life-for-drug-sniffing-dogs\">Colorado Court Complicates Life For Drug-Sniffing Dogs<\/a> (&#8220;A Colorado State Supreme Court ruling is putting some police dogs out of work. NPR&#8217;s Susan Davis finds out why from Brian Laas, president of the Colorado Police K-9 Association.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>A police officer\u2019s alleged illegal entry onto defendant\u2019s property doesn\u2019t lead to suppression of defendant\u2019s assault of the officer. The assault is attenuated from the alleged Fourth Amendment violation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.state.co.us\/userfiles\/file\/Court_Probation\/Supreme_Court\/Opinions\/2018\/18SA292.pdf\">People v. Tomaske<\/a>, 2019 CO 35, 2019 Colo. LEXIS 372 (May 20, 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Colorado has legalized possession of small amounts of marijuana, admission of possession of it in a car doesn\u2019t permit a drug dog to sniff the car without probable cause to believe there is an illegal amount in the car. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37798\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attenuation","category-dog-sniff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37871,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37798\/revisions\/37871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}