Rejecting the Florida Supreme Court's imposition of a rigid checklist of a dog's reliability for admission of evidence identified by a canine nose, a unanimous Supreme Court said in an opinion released today that a totality of circumstances test is all that must be passed for the evidence to be admissible. The case is Florida v. Harris.
Writing for the majority, Justice Kagan could not resist the immortal line, "A sniff is up to snuff when it meets that test."
