Monday, January 24, 2005

More Supremes: Dogs

Interesting outcome. Not that I'm surprised by the results. But, I'll never buy a used car again. You never know what the jerk before you did in the car and it doesn't take but a little leaf to get you a positive reaction from one of these dogs. Or worse, they commonly react positively even when they are sniffing legal hemp cloth. Then you're in bracelets while they tear your car apart. [Oh, and they have limited liability to fix anything they break. Neat trick that.]

I do agree with Souter and Ginsburg that this could lead to just random searching of cars by sniffing dogs. Especially of vehicles that are just standing somewhere. That gets you on a watch list if not impounding your car on the spot.

Another take on this is the maintenance of draconian laws related to marijuana possession. I know it's another topic entirely, but it will be the majority of cases where the allowance of this search style will cause the most arrests.

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