State v. Foster

After a lawful stop of defendant’s car, police searched the car based on an alert by an officer’s drug-detection dog. The search recovered a pipe with drug residue on it, which resulted in defendant’s arrest and prosecution for possession of methamphetamine. At trial, defendant moved to suppress evidence of the seized pipe, arguing that the dog alert was insufficiently reliable to provide probable cause to search his car. After a hearing, the trial court denied defendant’s motion and, following a bench trial, the trial court found defendant guilty. On appeal, defendant challenged the denial…