Many people do not know that they can refuse the search if a police officer asks to search their car. If you agree and agree, it becomes legal for the officer to search your vehicle. However, an officer does not need your consent to allow an addicted dog to conduct a snooping search of the outer perimeter of your car. If the dog alerts as a result of the search, the alert provides a likely reason for the police officer to search your vehicle without your consent. The particularly sensitive nose of drug detector dogs often provides law enforcement agencies with an effective tool to detect the presence of illicit drugs. In a recent example, a woman from Denton was arrested and charged with drug possession after a brief chase by Easton. The lawsuit in question began when a Talbot County law enforcement officer attempted to stop the motorist`s vehicle because the driver was allegedly driving with a suspended driver`s license. After the motorist`s vehicle was stopped, law enforcement used a drug-sniffing dog to alert them to the presence of drugs in the vehicle. Law enforcement was able to find cocaine in the vehicle, and the driver was subsequently charged with several offences, including possession of cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia, evasion and evasion, and driving with a suspended driver`s license.

The driver was later released from jail on $5,000 bail. The police need reasonable suspicion of a traffic violation to stop you. To search the car, they need a probable reason why you committed a crime other than the traffic violation. So if no officer already has a probable reason, they will need your permission to search your vehicle or allow a drug-addicted dog to snoop outside your car. When an official asks for permission to do so, it usually means that they do not already have a probable reason and that they need your permission. Many people don`t know it`s within their rights to deny the police permission to search your belongings at this point. If you say yes and agree, it becomes legal for the officer to search your car or use a drug-addicted dog. Komm. v.

Negron, 29 Mass L Rep 483 (2012) [This case is not available online, but can be requested free of charge from our document delivery service]. The defendants` request to suppress evidence obtained during the interior search of a vehicle by a sniffer dog was granted. „. the remandal detention of the Nissan for interrogation by a drug-sniffing dog was appropriate on the facts of the case. However, since this investigation did not result in an „alert” from K-9 Mattie, police had no other evidence to rely on to search the vehicle. A K-9 dog must declare that drugs are present before police allow him to board a vehicle, subject to a different legal justification. „Currently, the Supreme Court is debating the certification of these drug-addicted dogs and whether a dog can be used to sniff the outside of a home. The cases pitted the war on illegal drugs against the sanctity of the house. To assess these issues, the court considered two appeals from the Florida State Supreme Court. In these cases, the Florida court suppressed drug evidence by snooping down the front door of a home and lacking proper training and certification of a dog. The general rule was used in Rodriguez v. the United States.

Unless police have a „reasonable suspicion” of a crime, it is unconstitutional to unreasonably prolong a legal traffic check to detect a dog. Rodriguez v. United States: Unless police have a „reasonable suspicion” of a crime, extending a lawful traffic stop to sniff a dog is an unconstitutional seizure. Dog sniffers during a traffic stop are considered Fourth Amendment „searches” that require a probable reason, and police cannot use a drug addicted dog to obtain that probable reason unless they already have reasonable suspicion. The police power to stop your vehicle ends as soon as its duties related to the traffic offence (i.e. writing your ticket) have ended or reasonably should have been completed. The dog, which officers used to sniff Harris` car, was trained to recognize various types of illicit substances, but not pseudoephedrine.