United States v. Kevin P. Donnelly

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a fifty-nine minute detention to wait for a drug dog was reasonable where the officer requested the dog immediately after developing reasonable suspicion
• holding that a fifty-nine minute detention to wait for a drug dog was reasonable where the officer requested the dog immediately after developing reasonable suspicion
• holding that a fifty-nine-minute detention awaiting a drug dog was reasonable where nothing suggested that the officer \exercised suboptimal diligence\ or that \a similarly trained canine unit could have reached the scene sooner\
• holding a K9 alerting to a package supports probable cause to believe drugs are present
• “Assuming that the dog is reliable, a dog sniff resulting in an alert on a container, car, or other item, standing alone, gives an officer probable cause to believe that there are drugs present.”
• “Assuming that the dog is reliable, a dog sniff resulting in an alert on a . . . car . . . , standing alone, gives an officer probable cause to believe that there are drugs present.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).