I got pulled over for a traffic violation. Can the police have a drug dog sniff my car?
Yes, (according to the United States Supreme Court case Illinois v. Caballes). Florida courts have also said that a sniff of a car by a drug detection dog during a valid traffic stop is not a search. However, all is not lost! There may still be a few ways we can get the results of the drug sniff thrown out. We can attack the results based reliability of the dog, whether it has had false alerts in the past, and whether it alerted in the manner in which it was trained to.
