WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a drug-sniffing German shepherd named Aldo in ruling that police do not have to extensively document a dog’s expertise to justify relying on the animal to search someone’s vehicle.
The unanimous court overturned a Florida Supreme Court ruling. That court had thrown out a 2006 search of a truck after Aldo ‘‘alerted’’ to the smell of drugs, saying police must compile detailed evidence of the dog’s reliability before establishing probable cause to search the truck.
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Do Aldo's sniffer talents include Supreme Court-level standards that would qualifiy him to have expertise to justify hs being treated as a 'cadaver dog'?
Huh?????????