District Court of Appeal of Florida

Order granting a motion to suppress evidence in a drug possession case is affirmed where law enforcement-s use of a dog sniff without a warrant at the exterior of defendant's house constituted a search that was not permitted by the Fourth Amendment, and without the dog sniff there was no independent and lawfully obtained evidence establishing probable cause for issuance of a search warrant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/15/2006
• Published 02/15/2006

Judges

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Claudine M. LaFrance, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles Wender of Charles Wender Attorney-at-Law, Chartered, Boca Raton, for appellee.