PEOPLE v. BUTLER

No. 95.

2023 NY Slip Op 06468

THE PEOPLE & C., Respondent, v. DEVON T. BUTLER, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided December 19, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clea Weiss , for appellant.

Benjamin E. Holwitt , for respondent.

New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, amicus curiae.

Opinion by Judge Cannataro. Chief Judge Wilson and Judges Rivera, Garcia, Singas, Troutman and Halligan concur.


Over the past forty years, the United States Supreme Court has taken an incremental approach to determining whether the police technique of using a canine's heightened sense of smell to detect the presence of illegal drugs offends the prohibition on unreasonable searches set forth in the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution...

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