United States Fifth Circuit

A vehicle owner's consent was not necessary in order for police officers to use a drug-sniffing dog to perform a free-air search, and admission of physical evidence from a prior drug arrest, with a limiting instruction, was not plain error. (Revised opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/03/2002
• Published 12/20/2002

Judges

• DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DUHÉ and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Valerie Welz Jusselin, Asst. Fed. Pub. Def. (argued), New Orleans, LA, for Duffaut., Deborah Pearce Reggio (argued), Powell & Reggio, New Orleans, LA, for Huff.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew M. Coman (argued), Stephen A. Higginson, Asst. U.S. Atty., New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.