Monday, November 24, 2008
Meanwhile - In Manatee County, FL
I know this is the constitutionally correct decision, but ...
Todd Ruger reports in the Sarasota, FL Herald Tribune:
"Another circuit judge threw out evidence in a drug possession case, ruling that a narcotics-sniffing dog’s nose was not reliable enough to justify searching a vehicle.
Matthew McNeal is the second Manatee County defendant to escape drug possession charges this year because Talon, a now-retired K-9 from the Palmetto Police Department, alerted to the odor of drugs in a car and officers used that to search it.
Defense attorneys have shown Talon alerted that there were drugs in almost every vehicle he checked, yet officers found drugs fewer than half the time."
