U.S. Supreme Court hints at limits on dog sniffs for drugs

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U.S. Supreme Court hints at limits on dog sniffs for drugs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While considering whether a police dog should be allowed to sniff outside a home for illegal drugs inside, some U.S. Supreme Court justices smelled a rat. At their Wednesday session, justices from across the ideological spectrum signalled that the privacy interest of a person in his home was too great to give police a broad license to let trained canines sniff around a home for evidence they could not see. But in a second case involving a sniffer dog, some of the justices indicated they were hesitant to set too high a bar on police to show that their dogs are reliable. ...

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