Florida V. Joelis Jardine Case Analysis

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The Supreme Court is the highest court in the United States court system. The rulings of the Supreme Court regards protecting constitutional rights, such as freedom of speech and administrative regulations governing airline safety (Tarr, 2014). The Florida v. Joelis Jardine case was presented to the Supreme Court of the United States in regards to the constitutional right of Jardine home to be searched. According to the SCOTUSblog, the holding was due to a dog sniffing at the door of a house of Jardine where police suspected drugs being grown which establishes right to search under the Fourth Amendment. For that reason, the Miami-Dade Police Department were granted a warrant to search the home of Jardine, but proceeded into his home. Subsequently, the Fourth Amendment states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against …show more content…

Based on the facts of the case and the process of the case reaching the Supreme Court. The blog written by Lyle Denniston stated that the Florida Supreme Court agreed that sending a dog onto the porch of someone private home, to sniff at the door, was considered a search and applied the Fourth Amendment. Even though, the Miami-Dade did not verify the trustworthy of the tip and did not receive a warrant to search the property in the initial stage of the case. Franky, a trained police working dog, detect marijuana. He was trained to sit down if there were drugs, marijuana, in this case in the area. As a result of his sniffing, Franky sat down warning the police officers that marijuana was in the home of Jardine. The police later located marijuana in the home. This lead to the case reaching the U.S. Supreme Court in the state of Florida’s appeal. The appeal was based on two issues, whether the use of Franky on the porch was a search and whether the officers others conduct in watching the house also was a search under the Fourth

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