United States Tenth Circuit

Detection dog's sniff of defendant's waist and groin area, which alerted it to the presence of drugs, did not transform the encounter into an illegal seizure.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/30/2004
• Published 01/30/2004

Judges

• KELLY, Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, McKAY, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David N. Williams, Assistant United States Attorney (and David C. Iglesias, United States Attorney, on the brief) Albuquerque, NM, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Richard A. Winterbottom, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Albuquerque, NM, for Defendant-Appellant.