residual-odor

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-6739 Marshon Simon v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act,violent-felony,elements- attempted-offense canine-search criminal-procedure Does an attempted offense meet the requirements of florida-v-harris fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protections fourth-amendment,narcotics-detection,canine-search narcotics-detection residual-odor 1. Does Florida v. Harris stand for the proposition that narcotics sniffing canines may be trained to alert to residual odor, i.e. the absence of narc…
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…