State v. Rendon

MEYERS, JOHNSON, RICHARDSON, and NEWELL, JJ., joined.

In this case, we are asked to decide whether it constitutes a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment for law-enforcement officers to bring a trained drug-detection, dog directly up to the front door of an apartment-home for the purpose of conducting a canine-narcotics sniff. We hold that it does. Consistent with the reasoning of the Supreme Court’s opinion, in Florida v. Jardines,1 we conclude that the officers’ use of a dog sniff at the front door of the apartment-home of Michael Eric Rendon, appellee, resulted in a physical…