To: NCLaw441
A dog sniffing outside of a car is simply detecting an odor that has escaped the car. If the odor remained inside the car, the dog would never smell it. I would say that this is akin to a policeman at the front door of a house, seeing blood oozing out the door. Seeing that blood is not a search of the house, but the sight of that blood might provide the probable cause to search.
But if a policeman is at someone's door or has pulled someone over it is probably for another reason. If a dog is sniffing around a car, the entire reason the dog is there in the first place is to perform a search so it is disingenuous to say the dog is not searching since that is its sole purpose of its existence at the scene.
To: microgood
The other reason requires not probable cause, but reasonable suspicion. Usually this is the result of a traffic stop...
46 posted on
05/02/2007 5:45:39 PM PDT by
NCLaw441
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