{"id":58241,"date":"2024-06-30T11:01:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T16:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58241"},"modified":"2024-06-30T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T16:40:17","slug":"ca7-drug-dogs-59-success-rate-still-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58241","title":{"rendered":"CA7: Drug dog&#8217;s 59% success rate still PC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The fact the drug dog here had only a 59% (or 80%) success rate is still probable cause. The fact a dog can\u2019t tell the difference between legal and illegal cannabis is of no moment. It\u2019s still probable cause. <a href=\"https:\/\/media.ca7.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/OpinionsWeb\/processWebInputExternal.pl?Submit=Display&amp;Path=Y2024\/D06-28\/C:23-2224:J:Flaum:aut:T:fnOp:N:3229047:S:0\">United States v. Plancarte<\/a>, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 15766 (7th Cir. June 28, 2024). [Still, dogs can alert to residual odors, and that&#8217;s not a false alert. Success rate is different?]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The uncorroborated information from the unidentified citizen informant here was not reasonable suspicion on the totality. \u201c[D]efendant was seized once he complied with Officer Leach&#8217;s order to raise his hands because, in that moment, his liberty was sufficiently curtailed to implicate his Fourth Amendment rights.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.ri.gov\/Opinions\/Supreme-21-34.pdf\">State v. Pires<\/a>, 2024 R.I. LEXIS 56 (June 26, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emergency aid exception applied to an officer pulling behind defendant\u2019s car parked on a freeway on-ramp with the driver\u2019s door open and the driver vomiting. The fact the officer did no more than inquire wasn\u2019t of any moment. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S06022-24o%20-%20105986283271833518.pdf?cb=1\">Commonwealth v. Ward<\/a>, 2024 PA Super 133, 2024 Pa. Super. LEXIS 260 (June 28, 2024).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact the drug dog here had only a 59% (or 80%) success rate is still probable cause. The fact a dog can\u2019t tell the difference between legal and illegal cannabis is of no moment. It\u2019s still probable cause. United &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58241\">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":[74,27,3,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-caretaking-function","category-dog-sniff","category-emergency-exigency","category-informant-hearsay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58241","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=58241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58244,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58241\/revisions\/58244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}