Court Considers When Cops Can Use Canines
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Driving 6 mph over the speed limit got Roy Caballes pulled over. But what happened next landed him at the Supreme Court, which considered Wednesday when police can use drug-sniffing dogs.
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The Supreme Court gave police broader search powers Monday during traffic stops, ruling that drug-sniffing dogs can be used to check out motorists even if officers have no reason to suspect they may be carrying narcotics.
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The city's police chief and police dog have degrees from the same online school, according to a defense lawyer challenging the chief's authority.
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Calif. judge says that the San Francisco Zoo may look for incriminating photographs on cell phones owned by two men who were mauled by a tiger last month.
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The fate of Michael Vick will be determined at sentencing later this year. The fate of the dogs, too violent to be let free around others, is all but sealed.
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When Denis and Sarah Scheele's dog was fatally shot after wandering onto a man's property, they sued &#151; and not just for damages. The couple also wanted compensation for their emotional distress and loss of companionship.
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There once was a dog that was chained to a leash in its owner&#39;s front yard. A neighbor&#39;s child wandered onto the property - trespasses would be the technical word for it -â and started poking the dog in the ears, the eyes, the mouth.
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Criminals may be stealing Staffordshire Bull Terriers and using them to guard stolen property, a police report says.
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PITTSBURGH - The state Supreme Court ruled that Pennsylvania's drunken driving law can't be enforced against people on horseback, a decision that inspired the dissenting justice to wax poetic.    The court ruled Wednesday in a case against two men in Mercer County in 2002...
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A man has been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly biting his Jack Russell terrier as punishment, and police say he used a 90-kilogram bull mastiff in an attempt to keep back officers who arrived to arrest him.
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The US Navy can use sonar equipment during training despite a possible threat to whales, a court rules.
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Supporters are beginning their High Court challenge to the ban on hunting with dogs in England and Wales.
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Advocates for the use of stun guns by police departments point to evidence that they are generally safe. But a recent demonstration shows otherwise.
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The Supreme Court relies on precedents and case law, dry recitations of fact and the sometimes bloodless decisions of the courts below it. But in a case involving a now-paralyzed man who instigated a high-speed police chase, most of the justices, as a sportscaster might say, went to the videotape.
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GRAPEVINE, Texas - The owner of J.D. the Labrador may be wishing his dog weren't such a good retriever. Matthew Porter and two friends were playing Frisbee golf in a park Monday when a police officer who thought he smelled burning marijuana began questioning them.
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Jails and detention centers around the country must stop using police dogs to control immigration detainees as of Saturday under a new policy issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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Among the new cases the Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will consider: