State v. Rendon

YEARY, J.,

filed a dissenting opinion in which KELLER, P.J., and KEASLER and HERVEY, JJ., joined.

In Florida v. Jardines, — U.S. -, 133 S.Ct. 1409, 185 L.Ed.2d 495 (2013), the United States Supreme Court held that a narcotics-dog sniff conducted on the front porch of a private residence constituted a search for Fourth Amendment purposes. In a published opinion, the Thirteenth Court of Appeals applied that holding to conclude that the trial court properly granted Appellee’s motion to suppress in this case, in which the police conducted a dog sniff for drugs at the front door of Appellee’s…