{"id":62841,"date":"2026-01-19T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62841"},"modified":"2026-01-19T10:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:40:32","slug":"oh2-dog-handlers-testimony-of-dog-certification-was-sufficient-to-show-reliability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62841","title":{"rendered":"OH2: Dog handler&#8217;s testimony of dog certification was sufficient to show reliability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The dog handler\u2019s testimony that the dog was certified before this sniff was sufficient to show the dog was reliable. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/2\/2026\/2026-Ohio-143.pdf\">State v. Murphy<\/a>, 2026-Ohio-143 (2d Dist. Jan. 13, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Search warrants can be based on hearsay. Mendenhall v. City &amp; Cty. of Denver, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 1187 (10th Cir. Jan. 16, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any minor offense justifies a stop. \u201cBased on Deputy Anthony Crawford&#8217;s credible testimony and the lack of any evidence contradicting it, Judge Nelson correctly determined that Deputy Crawford had a reasonable basis to believe the defendant committed a traffic violation and therefore probable cause existed to initiate the traffic stop.\u201d United States v. Ausherman, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8752 (D. Neb. Jan. 16, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no Fourth Amendment claim for a prison cell search. Muhammad v. Piston, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8690 (E.D. Pa. Jan. 15, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dog handler\u2019s testimony that the dog was certified before this sniff was sufficient to show the dog was reliable. State v. Murphy, 2026-Ohio-143 (2d Dist. Jan. 13, 2026). Search warrants can be based on hearsay. Mendenhall v. City &amp; &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62841\">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":[27,44,113,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-sniff","category-informant-hearsay","category-prison-and-jail-searches","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62841","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=62841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62842,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62841\/revisions\/62842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}