United States v. Randall James Race

How courts have described this case

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• it is not any excited behavior of a dog that is sufficient by itself to establish the presence of contraband
• sole possession of consignee of crate reasonably believed to contain contraband held sufficient to establish probable cause to arrest
• sole possession of consignee of crate reasonably believed to contain contraband held sufficient to establish probable cause to arrest
• “The existence of probable cause based on an alert by a drug dog depends upon the dog’s reliability”
• consent to search of air cargo found to contain marijuana was not tainted by agent's prior and arguably illegal inspection of cargo, where dog sniff alone provided ample motive to seek consent of cargo's owner
• consent to search of air cargo found to contain marijuana was not tainted by agent's prior and arguably illegal inspection of cargo, where dog sniff alone provided ample motive to seek consent of cargo's owner

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).