STATE v. GOODLEY

No. 79-985.

381 So.2d 1180 (1980)

The STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Joseph Jay GOODLEY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied April 18, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Calvin L. Fox, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

McGill, Dulmer & Tracy and Robert Jackson Magill, Venice, for appellee.

Before HENDRY and SCHWARTZ, JJ., and VANN, HAROLD R. (Ret.), Associate Judge.


SCHWARTZ, Judge.

The state appeals from an order suppressing a half-pound of cocaine which was discovered and seized after police officers, armed with a search warrant, opened the defendant's suitcase at the Miami International Airport. The basis of the ruling below was the conclusion that the information which constituted probable cause to believe that the bag contained contraband — primarily the result of the "sniffing" of a trained police dog — had...

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