United States v. Modesto Diaz

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• holding that “to support a determination of probable cause, the training and reliability of the dog must be established.”
• holding that there was no reasonable expectation of privacy in a car parked in the parking lot of the motel the defendant was staying in
• having a trained dog sniff a vehicle lawfully stopped in a public place is not a search
• affirming finding of dog’s reliability following district court’s consideration of competing expert testimony
• a low percentage of false positives is not necessarily fatal to a finding that a drug detection dog is properly trained and certified
• “For a positive drug reaction to support a determination of probable cause, the training and reliability of the dog must be established.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).