Legal Opinion
Whitehead v. Com.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided September 18, 2009No. 082458PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
683 S.E.2d 299 (2009)
Travis Stacey WHITEHEAD
v.
COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.
Record No. 082458.
Supreme Court of Virginia.
September 18, 2009.
David W. Cassidy, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
Joanne V. Frye, Assistant Attorney General (William C. Mims, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.
Present: All the Justices.
OPINION BY Justice CYNTHIA D. KINSER.
In this appeal, we hold that a positive alert on a vehicle by a trained narcotics detection dog, combined with the subsequent fruitless searches of the vehicle, the driver, and two passengers, does not provide sufficient particularized…
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