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171371P.pdf 06/05/2018 United States v. Javier Pulido-Ayala
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 17-1371
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Gruender, Circuit Judge, and Reade,
District Judge]
Criminal case - Criminal law. A drug dog's reaction while it was still
outside of defendant's vehicle, together with defendant's suspicious
reaction to a drug interdiction checkpoint, gave the police probable cause
to search the car before the drug dog jumped into the car through an open
door; officers had no responsibility to close the car's door after
defendant's companion opened it and voluntarily exited the car.