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· 12/16/1991

United States v. $80,760.00 in U.S. Currency

Citations

  • 781 F. Supp. 462
  • 1991 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18677
  • 1991 WL 279556

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that such evidence is admissible if police can link the defendant to the narcotics through other, more direct methods
  • questioning the probative value of a narcotics detection dog’s positive alert in the absence of any other credible evidence connecting the money to drugs
  • questioning the probative value of a narcotics detection dog's positive alert in the absence of any other credible evidence connecting the money to drugs
  • noting “a large.amount of money, found in combination with other persuasive circumstantial evidence, particularly the presence of drug paraphernalia, is frequently held sufficient to establish probable cause” (emphasis added)
  • noting “a large amount of money, found in combination with other persuasive circumstantial evidence, particularly the presence of drug paraphernalia, is frequently held sufficient to establish probable cause” (emphasis added)
  • “[T]he Court seriously questions the value of a dog’s alert without other persuasive evidence... ”

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Judges: Belew

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