New York Court of Appeals Roundup: Use of Police Dogs Constitutes Search Implicating Fourth Amendment Protections
01.16.24
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In their column in the New York Law Journal, Litigation Partners Bill Russell and Linton Mann III explore People v. Butler, in which the Court of Appeals recently decided an issue of first impression concerning the use of police dogs to detect the presence of illegal drugs on a suspect’s body. In a unanimous opinion, the Court ruled that the use of a narcotics-detecting dog to sniff a suspect’s body for evidence of a crime constitutes a search for purposes of the Fourth Amendment.
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