Last year, one of our readers sent me an article about one of two pending appeals in the Supreme Court of the United States about the use of drug-dogs and the admissibility of searches and seizures based on drug-dog indications.The two appeals are Florida v Jardines and Florida v Harris. An overview of the cases …
Continue reading Nose for crime or just bad scents? Drug dogs and the search-or-sniff dichotomy
We don't get very many appellate decisions on dog bite cases, even though they are (unfortunately) relatively frequent in our Magistrates' Courts.Johnson v Buchanan [2012] VSC 195 was a judicial review under O56 rather than appeal under Criminal Procedure Act s 272, after a magistrate found a dog owner not guilty of an offence when …
Continue reading Johnson v Buchanan [2012] VSC 195: dog bites man; dog not at fault