Poliar v. State

GROSS, J:

Hilaire Poliar appeals the denial of his dispositive motion to suppress, after which he entered a- guilty plea to drug trafficking. Following a lawful traffic stop, a dog alerted to drugs in the back seat of Pol-iar’s car. A further search revealed three *1014kilograms of cocaine. We affirm, finding that reasonable suspicion supported Pol-iar’s twenty-minute detention until-the dog search uncovered the drugs.

The issue is whether the dog search occurred during a legal detention. As the United States Supreme Court observed in Illinois v. Caballes, — U.S. -, 125 S.Ct. 834, 160 L.Ed.2d 842…