Jones v. Com.

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• holding that a positive alert from a narcotics detection dog establishes probable cause to search a vehicle
• holding that “a positive alert from a narcotics detection dog establishes probable cause to search a vehicle”
• holding that probable cause to make a warrantless search exists when “there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place”
• noting that on appeal, the party challenging a denial of a motion to suppress bears the burden of showing the denial was error
• providing that evaluating the reliability of a dog sniff is akin to assessing information from an informant
• noting that a finding of probable cause requires a “fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place” (emphasis added) (quoting United States v. Grubbs, 547 U.S. 90, 95 (2006))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).