Author Question: According to the Supreme Court, a police officer is permitted to use drug sniffing dogs during a ... (Read 57 times)

amal · **on:** Aug 16, 2018

According to the Supreme Court, a police officer is permitted to use drug sniffing dogs during a routine stop for a traffic violation:

a. because the driver of the car does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy while lawfully stopped.
b. only if the officer can establish probable cause that the driver has contraband in the car.
c. only if the officer has probable cause and a search warrant.
d. only if the driver has consented to the search.

Question 2

Police used a thermal imager to scan Kyllo's home because they had information that he was growing marijuana in his home. Officers did not have a warrant and claimed the search was in plain view. The Supreme Court ruled that:

a. use of a thermal imager did not alter the fact that the officers observed the marijuana in plain view.
b. use of a thermal imager to explore details of a home that in the past would have been unknown without aphysical intrusion into the home is a search and subject to Fourth Amendment requirements.
c. thermal imagers are common devices and, therefore, the search was in plain view.
d. the use of a thermal imager is always illegal.