Legal Opinion
United States v. Adela Morales-Zamora, United States of America v. Javier Ozuna-Fuentes and Jose Manuel Morales-Diaz
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided September 6, 1990No. 89-2172, 89-2244PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TACHA, Circuit Judge.
Defendants Adela Morales-Zamora, Javier Ozuna-Fuentes, and Jose Manuel Morales-Diaz were indicted on drug charges after a trained narcotics detection dog alerted to their vehicles while they were detained at a roadblock operated by Socorro, New Mexico police authorities. The district court in both cases granted the defendants’ motions to suppress on the ground that the dog sniff was a “search” under the fourth amendment, U.S. Const, amend. IV, requiring a reasonable and ar-ticulable suspicion of drug-related criminal activity. We reverse.
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