Legal Opinion
United States v. Mason
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 8, 2010No. 07-4900PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
After completing a traffic stop of Victor Mason on Interstate 20, between Atlanta and South Carolina, with the issuance of a warning ticket, the Georgia state trooper making the stop extended it for several minutes, based on the trooper’s suspicion of criminal activity, to allow a drug-detection dog to sniff Mason’s vehicle. The dog alerted multiple times to the presence of a narcotics odor and then jumped into the car through an open window and sat on the back seat of Mason’s vehicle, again alerting to the presence of a narcotics odor. A search of the vehicle…
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