An influential 2005 case of the Seventh Circuit, U.S. v. $30,670, 403 F.3d 448 (8th Cir. 2005), determined that a drug dog’s alert to currency could help establish a connection between the currency and illicit drug activity based on the scientific conclusion that the substance that dogs were detecting on the currency was methyl benzoate, a byproduct of cocaine undergoing hydrolysis due to moisture, and that methyl benzoate is only detectible for a short time after the currency contacts cocaine. Thus, innocently contaminated currency should not...
Friday, September 27, 2013
Monday, September 9, 2013
Pointing Gestures and False Alerts: Recent Research Suggests How Dogs May Turn into Walking Search Warrants
Eighteen police dog teams entered a church where there were no drugs, and where residual odors were unlikely, yet 17 of the 18 teams alerted to the presence of target odors, most multiple times. In a paper that caused a good deal of consternation in the police dog world, three scientists at the University of California at Davis argued that the false alerts arose from the fact that the police dog handlers had been led to believe that there were drugs inside the church. The handlers had cued their dogs. The results were not videotaped...
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Fish & Wildlife Announces Public Hearings on Taking Gray Wolves off the Endangered List
Additional Hearing Announced. In the October 2, 2013 Federal Register, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it will hold an additional public hearing on October 17, 2013, in Denver, Colorado. The hearing will be held at the Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Place in Denver. A phone number is listed: (303) 405-1245. A call to this number was answered by a machine explaining that I had reached the Kroenke Sports Events and Entertainment Department. 78 Fed. Reg. 60813 (October 2, 2013) The U.S. Fish and Wildife...
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