{"id":59551,"date":"2024-12-11T09:10:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T14:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=59551"},"modified":"2024-12-11T09:37:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T14:37:01","slug":"drug-dog-nose-into-a-car-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=59551","title":{"rendered":"Drug dog nose into a car window"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe drug dog&#8217;s fleeting touch of the passenger door and de minimus intrusion into the vehicle cabin through a window left open by a passenger does not justify the exclusion of evidence under the Supreme Court&#8217;s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.\u201d It also didn\u2019t violate the state constitution. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowacourts.gov\/courtcases\/20949\/embed\/SupremeCourtOpinion\">State v. Mumford<\/a>, 2024 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 99 (Dec. 6, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drug dog here was asked to sniff from a higher position and put his paws on the side of the car. His snout broke the plane of the window, but this was not an unreasonable intrusion because it was instinctive. United States v. Fellmy, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 222155 (E.D. Ky. Dec. 9, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A drug dog putting his paws on a vehicle is not an unreasonable search. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/23\/23-40338-CR0.pdf\">United States v. Keller<\/a>, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 31098 (5th Cir. Dec. 9, 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe drug dog&#8217;s fleeting touch of the passenger door and de minimus intrusion into the vehicle cabin through a window left open by a passenger does not justify the exclusion of evidence under the Supreme Court&#8217;s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.\u201d It &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=59551\">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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-sniff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59554,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59551\/revisions\/59554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}