United States v. Donald Ray Brown

McWILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge.

In a one-count indictment, Donald Ray Brown was charged with knowingly and intentionally possessing cocaine, a Schedule II Controlled Substance, with an intent to distribute it, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) (1988). Brown filed a motion to suppress the use at trial of the $7,815 in currency and the eight Ziploc baggies of cocaine found under the front seat floor mat of his Lincoln Continental automobile. The gist of the motion was that the government’s use of a canine to “sniff’ his car violated Brown’s Fourth Amendment rights.

After an evidentiary…