Maryland's Idiot Judges: Police Dogs "Part of the Family"
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SCOTUSBlog:
Diamond is not a member of my family...she is my family.
She also doesn't testify against me at trial.
There are some jurists who will argue anything, absolutely anything, in order to expand government and contract the Constitution.
May they die painful deaths, preferably in the jaws of a drug-sniffing dog.
[T]he Maryland Court of Appeals [ruled] 5-2 that a dog sniff of an apartment is not a search.
As the court notes...this ruling widens a split in the lower courts on what will almost certainly be a cert.-worthy "follow-up" question to Caballes if the Court's decision in that pending case does not resolve it. Of note, the Maryland high court reasoned that Kyllo "has no bearing on dog sniffs" because, inter alia, "a dog is not a technology -- he or she is a dog. . . . . Across America, people consider dogs as members of their family."
Diamond is not a member of my family...she is my family.
She also doesn't testify against me at trial.
There are some jurists who will argue anything, absolutely anything, in order to expand government and contract the Constitution.
May they die painful deaths, preferably in the jaws of a drug-sniffing dog.
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Posted by KipEsquire on
11 December 2004
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