drug-detection

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-774 Eric Tyrell Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-02 Pending Amici (7) drug-detection fourth-amendment home-privacy law-enforcement probable-cause warrantless-search "[W]hen it comes to the Fourth Amendment, the home is first among equals." Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1, 6 (2013). As this Court has repeatedly str…
22-1226 Idaho v. Kirby Anthony Dorff Idaho 2023-06-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment constitutional-protection drug-detection drug-detection-dog fourth-amendment governmental-conduct law-enforcement lawfully-stopped-car physical-intrusion search search-and-seizure I. Does a drug-detection dog physically intrude upon a constitutionally protected area and therefore conduct an unreasonable search under the Fourth A…
21-6726 Mark Jason Davis v. Florida Florida 2021-12-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment drug-detection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment k9-sniff police-dog private-property probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant WHETHER AN OPEN-AIR SNIFF CONDUCTED BY A POLICE K9 (DOG) TRAINED IN DRUG DETECTION, ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, WITHOUT A SEARCH WARRANT OR PROBABLE CAUSE, C…
18-9050 Roland Kailihiwa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment canine-alert contamination drug-detection drug-detection-canine expert-testimony probable-cause residual-odor search-and-seizure search-warrant training Police trained Mervin, a drug-detection canine, to alert on minimal residual odor. In accord with that training, Mervin often alerted on parcels conta…
18-667 Lonnie Charles Williams, III v. Texas Texas 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived driving-while-intoxicated drug-detection fourth-amendment intoxication-signs law-enforcement odor-of-alcohol probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment can exist in a driving while intoxicated context when officers do not detect the odor of alcoh…