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Colorado Law – The Police Use A Dog Sniffing Dog – What Next? By Colorado Criminal Defense Lawyer
First Some Basic 4th Amendment Search and Seizure Law
A Dog Sniff Alone Is NOT A Search Under State And Federal Law
The Federal and State Constitutions give people the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. U.S. Const. amend. IV; Colo. Const. art. II, ยง 7; A warrantless search is presumptively unreasonable, violating the Fourth Amendment unless it falls under an exception to the requirement