Supreme Court to hear cases about how accurate a drug-sniffing dog has to be and whether drug-sniffing dogs can sniff from outside a home

[Jenna]

One of the new cases

asks the court to clarify how accurate a dog must be in terms of its past identification of contraband — for, as Justice David H. Souter

once warned in dissent

, “The infallible dog, however, is a creature of legal fiction.”

The

second of the court’s new dog cases

asks if the police may take a drug-sniffing dog to the front porch of a home to sniff for evidence of marijuana inside.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/op...ches.html?_r=0