Florida V Jardines

United states supreme court.

Florida v jardines. As the detective neared jardines s porch the dog detected the odor of marijuana. The police then obtained a warrant found marijuana in the home and arrested jardines. Argument s acting on a tip police conducted a warrantless canine sniff with a drug detection dog of the front door of the defendant s residence and obtained a search warrant based on the dog. The dog sat on the porch at the odor s strongest point as he was trained to do.

After receiving a tip about a house in which marijuana was growing a detective approached the house which was owned by jardines defendant with a drug sniffing dog. 1 2013 was a united states supreme court case which resulted in the decision that police use of a trained detection dog to sniff for narcotics on the front porch of a private home is a search within the meaning of the fourth amendment to the united states constitution and therefore without consent requires both probable cause and a search warrant. At trial jardines moved to suppress the marijuana evidence. 1 2013 case summary of florida v.

The investigation of jardines home was a search within the meaning of the fourth amendment. Decision below 73 so 3d 34 fla. The supreme court of florida approved the trial court s decision to suppress the evidence holding that the officers had engaged in a fourth amendment search unsupported by probable cause. Jardines was charged with trafficking in excess of 25 pounds of cannabis a first degree felony and with grand theft for stealing over five thousand dollars of electricity from florida power light to grow marijuana a third degree felony.

Police used a drug sniffing dog on jardines front porch and the dog alerted to the smell of marijuana.