State v. Foster

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• noting that, in the context of justification to arrest a person, probable cause “ ‘means that there is a substantial objective basis for believing that more likely than not an offense has been committed and a person to be arrested has committed it’ ” (quoting ORS 131.005(11))
• observation made by officer that is consistent with prohibited conduct “does not have to eliminate any possibility of an innocent explanation to pro- vide probable cause”
• alert by properly trained and reliable drug-detection dog can provide probable cause for search
• “[A]n alert by a properly trained and reliable drug-detection dog can be a basis for probable cause to search.”
• in determining whether probable cause exists to search, “an observation made by police that is consistent with criminal conduct does not have to eliminate any possibility of an innocent explanation to provide probable cause”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).