United States v. Keiran George Kennedy

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• holding that “a 70-80% success rate meets the liberal standard for probable cause” to issue a search warrant
• holding that an affidavit was sufficient to support probable cause in spite of undisclosed issues with the canine’s training and certification, in part because the affidavit contained other facts.
• stating that a search following a positive alert by a dog with at least a 71% accuracy rate satis- fied probable cause
• stating that a dog’s “reliability should come from the fact that the dog is trained and annually certified to perform a physical skill”
• explaining that “the government is held accountable for statements made not only by the affiant but also for statements made by other government employees which were deliberately misleading insofar as such statements were relied upon by the affiant in making the affidavit”
• stating indications by trained or reliable narcotics dogs support probable cause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).