MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The United States Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police must first get a search warrant before bringing drug-sniffing police dogs onto a suspects property.
...“The police cannot, without a warrant based on probable cause, hang around on the lawn or in the side garden, trawling for evidence and perhaps peering into the windows of the home,” Justice Antonin Scalia said for the majority. “And the officers here had all four of their feet and all four of their companion’s, planted firmly on that curtilage — the front porch is the classic example of an area intimately associated with the life of the home.”
He was joined in his opinion by Justices Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
In a truly bipartisan 5-4 vote, SCOTUS upholds right to privacy in our homes.
Supreme Court Limits Drug-Sniffing Dog Usage By Police « CBS Miami
Talk about an oddly flavored majority. Staunch conservatives, Thomas and Scalia, agreeing with the most liberal contingent on the court: the three women.
Seems like a brilliant decision for a change!
Not sure why it was only 5-4 !
In a truly bipartisan 5-4 vote, SCOTUS upholds right to privacy in our homes.
Talk about an oddly flavored majority. Staunch conservatives, Thomas and Scalia, agreeing with the most liberal contingent on the court: the three women.
Yeah, right? What's up with Roberts, this seems like he'd have been right there with them on this.
Seems like a brilliant decision for a change!
Not sure why it was only 5-4 !
“A reasonable person understands that odors emanating from a house may be detected from locations that are open to the public, and a reasonable person will not count on the strength of those odors remaining within the range that, while detectable by a dog, cannot be smelled by a human.”
In a truly bipartisan 5-4 vote, SCOTUS upholds right to privacy in our homes.
Supreme Court Limits Drug-Sniffing Dog Usage By Police « CBS Miami
Talk about an oddly flavored majority. Staunch conservatives, Thomas and Scalia, agreeing with the most liberal contingent on the court: the three women.
Women, like squirrels, get it right every once in a while, too.
Yeah. Seems like it should have been a no-brainer: 9-0. I'm just glad to see T & S being on the same page as Sotomeyer, Ginsburg and Kagan on this.
I have no idea what was running through the heads of Robets, Alito, Kennedy and Breyer except this vague quote from CJ Roberts.
Reading the details of this case, it's clear that the smell was not detected from the sidewalk. THe cops brought the dog right up to the door.
Yeah. Seems like it should have been a no-brainer: 9-0. I'm just glad to see T & S being on the same page as Sotomeyer, Ginsburg and Kagan on this.
I have no idea what was running through the heads of Robets, Alito, Kennedy and Breyer except this vague quote from CJ Roberts.
Reading the details of this case, it's clear that the smell was not detected from the sidewalk. THe cops brought the dog right up to the door. So, Robert's statement is sort of disingenuous.
Talk about an oddly flavored majority. Staunch conservatives, Thomas and Scalia, agreeing with the most liberal contingent on the court: the three women.
Women, like squirrels, get it right every once in a while, too.
According to the accompanying article:
“A drug detection dog is a specialized device for discovering objects not in plain view (or plain smell),” Kagan wrote in a concurring opinion."
So what is the distance the SCOTUS would find reasonable in terms of detection of objects in "plain smell"?
I resemble that remark. I believe women make excellent leaders. How's it goin tigger?
I don't think it is distance so much as factual when it comes to private property. If this case stood you could bet that every time you opened the door for a cop there would be a dog right there beside him/her.
That could be true. I understand the ruling, and agree with it, but I see this grey area where distance and "plain smell" are left to rather vague reference. Perhaps the specifics in the ruling will clarify the issue.
Women, like squirrels, get it right every once in a while, too.
At some point our technology will allow us to capture all emissions from a home, without
being on the property.
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