{"id":7905,"date":"2012-10-31T09:43:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T09:39:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T09:39:06","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7905","title":{"rendered":"Drug dog day in SCOTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/decision2012\/supreme-court-is-asked-to-be-skeptical-of-drug-sniffing-dogs\/2012\/10\/30\/5b181110-2125-11e2-8448-81b1ce7d6978_story_1.html\">Supreme Court is asked to be skeptical of drug-sniffing dogs<\/a> by Robert Barnes, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Aldo the German shepherd and Franky the chocolate Lab are drug-detecting dogs who have been retired to opposite ends of the ultimate retiree state.<\/p>\n<p>But their work is still being evaluated, and on Wednesday it will be before the Supreme Court. The justices must decide whether man\u2019s best friend is an honest broker as blind to prejudice as Lady Justice, or as prone as the rest of us to a bad day at the office or the ma\u00adnipu\u00adla\u00adtion of our partners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, no national standard for certification exists. \u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as a well-trained narcotics detection dog,\u201d said Jeffrey Weiner, a criminal defense lawyer from Miami. \u201cIt means whatever a trial judge or appellate judge or Supreme Court justice wants it to mean.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ABAJ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/chemerinsky_the_fourth_amendment_goes_to_the_dogs\/\">Chemerinsky: The Fourth Amendment Goes to the Dogs<\/a> by Erwin Chemerinsky.<\/p>\n<p>NPR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/10\/31\/163720403\/can-drug-sniffing-dog-prompt-home-search\">here<\/a>; NBC News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/10\/31\/163720403\/can-drug-sniffing-dog-prompt-home-search\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prior post <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/blog\/index.php?blog=1&amp;title=nacdl_at_the_national_press_club_for_the&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7905\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}