State v. Cuong Phu Le

OPINION

in which KELLER, P.J., and JOHNSON, KEASLER, HERVEY, RICHARDSON and YEARY, JJ., joined.

This case involves a search warrant based in part upon an alert from a drug-detecting dog. After the execution of the search warrant, but before a hearing on the motion to suppress, the United States Supreme Court held in Florida v. Jardines that law-enforcement officers’ use of a drug-sniffing dog on the front porch of a home without a search warrant violated the Fourth Amendment. Consequently, this Court must determine whether the search-warrant affidavit — minus the drug-dog’s alert — clearly…