Legal Opinion
United States v. Keiran George Kennedy
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 3, 1997No. 96-2290PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
Law enforcement officers seized over fifty pounds of marijuana from two suitcases carried by DefendanU-Appellee Kieran George Kennedy after obtaining a search warrant based in part on a narcotics canine alert. Kennedy was indicted for possession with intent to distribute marijuana. The affidavit supporting the warrant described the drug dog as trained and certified to detect narcotics. However, the drug dog’s handler had not maintained proper records of the dog’s reliability nor conducted periodic field training as instructed by the agency that had certified the dog.…
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