Drug-Sniffing Dogs Could Warrant Home Searches – Video

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Drug-Sniffing Dogs Could Warrant Home Searches
"You can already hear all the likely jokes at the Supreme Court, about the justices going to the dogs. But the issue being argued Wednesday is deadly serious: whether police can take a trained drug-detection dog up to a house to smell for drugs inside, and if the dog alerts, use that to justify a search of the home. In the case before the court, the four-legged cop was named Franky, and as a result of his nose, his human police partner charged Joelis Jardines with trafficking in more than 25 pounds of marijuana. In the fall of 2006, police in Florida got an anonymous crime-stoppers tip that there was illegal drug activity at the Jardines home. A month later, police officers took Franky to the house and walked him up to the front porch. When the dog alerted for drugs, the police got a warrant, found marijuana growing inside and arrested Jardines. The Florida Supreme Court ruled that the dog sniff was an illegal search and thus could not justify a warrant. Now the state has appealed to the US Supreme Court, and the case poses tricky issues for both law enforcement and privacy advocates."* Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break down this unconstitutional idea; why don #39;t Fourth Amendment rights get protected the same way Second Amendment rights do? Cenk and Ana have an answer. *Read more from Nina Totenberg/ NPR: http://www.npr.orgFrom:TheYoungTurksViews:24666 994ratingsTime:04:04More inPeople Blogs

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