State v. Davis

OPINION

SHUMAKER, Judge.

After receiving complaints of odors of drugs from apartment-complex employees, law-enforcement officers performed a dog sniff in a common hallway of appellant’s apartment. The dog alerted to the odor of illegal drugs. The officers then obtained and executed a search warrant and seized drugs and drug paraphernalia from appellant’s apartment. The district court denied appellant’s motion to suppress the evidence seized from the search. On appeal, appellant argues that the dog sniff was a search that required probable cause or, alternatively, that a reasonable, articu-lable…