Mar 302016
 
 March 30, 2016  Posted by  Court, Surveillance, U.S.

AP reports:

A Connecticut marijuana bust has turned into a potential precedent-setting case on whether apartment and condo dwellers have the same rights as house owners when it comes to police using drug-sniffing dogs outside their homes.

The state Supreme Court on Wednesday is scheduled to hear arguments in the case of Dennis Kono, who was arrested in 2012 after a police dog deployed without a warrant in a condo building hallway in Berlin smelled marijuana near his door. Berlin police then obtained a search warrant for Kono’s condo and found several small marijuana plants, seeds, growing equipment and firearms.

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