{"id":62961,"date":"2026-01-30T16:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62961"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:39:10","slug":"id-finding-drugs-in-43-of-dog-alerts-doesnt-mean-dog-unreliable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62961","title":{"rendered":"ID: Finding drugs in 43% of dog alerts doesn&#8217;t mean dog unreliable or no PC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This drug dog only found drugs in 43% of alerts. That\u2019s still enough for probable cause. Dogs can alert where drugs have been. Lack of success doesn\u2019t mean false hits. <a href=\"https:\/\/isc.idaho.gov\/opinions\/51539.pdf\">State v. Barritt<\/a>, 2026 Ida. LEXIS 16 (Jan. 29, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Touching the fog line is justification for a stop in Mississippi according to state and federal precedent. United States v. Gebrezghi, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17000 (N.D. Miss. Jan. 29, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Controlled buys provided probable cause, so the failure to test marijuana baggies in a trash pull were neither prejudicial nor required. United States v. Wyatt, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16939 (S.D. Ohio Jan. 29, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This drug dog only found drugs in 43% of alerts. That\u2019s still enough for probable cause. Dogs can alert where drugs have been. Lack of success doesn\u2019t mean false hits. State v. Barritt, 2026 Ida. LEXIS 16 (Jan. 29, 2026). &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62961\">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":[27,20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-sniff","category-probable-cause","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62961","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=62961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62978,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62961\/revisions\/62978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}