{"id":61961,"date":"2025-09-23T08:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61961"},"modified":"2025-09-23T08:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:26:09","slug":"scotusblog-the-dog-sniff-at-the-center-of-a-supreme-court-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61961","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUSBlog: The dog sniff at the center of a Supreme Court petition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SCOTUSBlog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2025\/09\/the-dog-sniff-at-the-center-of-a-supreme-court-petition\/\">The dog sniff at the center of a Supreme Court petition<\/a> by Kelsey Dallas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The traffic stop started with a dirty license plate. Logan Camp, a police officer in Winterset, Iowa, pulled over Ashlee Mumford on March 5, 2022, because he couldn\u2019t make out two of the numbers on her plate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But once he stopped Mumford\u2019s car, Camp investigated more than her license, registration, insurance, and plate. He called in the police department\u2019s canine handler and asked Mumford and her passenger to get out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The handler, Christian Dekker, soon arrived with Orozco, a certified drug-detection dog, and they walked around the exterior of Mumford\u2019s car for 15 to 20 seconds. Along the passenger side, \u201cOrozco briefly rose on his hind legs, put his paws on the passenger door, and his nose \u2018momentarily, almost imperceptibly\u2019 crossed the plane of the open window,\u201d according to a Supreme Court brief filed by the state of Iowa in Mumford v. Iowa. The dog alerted Dekker to the presence of drugs, prompting a search of Mumford\u2019s purse and car. Ultimately, Mumford was charged with possession of methamphetamine, marijuana, and drug paraphernalia and then convicted of marijuana and drug paraphernalia possession (but acquitted of possession of meth.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTUSBlog: The dog sniff at the center of a Supreme Court petition by Kelsey Dallas:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-sniff","category-trespass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61961","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=61961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61962,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61961\/revisions\/61962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}