Mon Nov 2 · 7pm

Lectures on Tap — Sniff Test: A Police Dog and the Fourth Amendment

Lectures on Tap · Downtown Boston · MA (bar; exact address sent in confirmation email) · Boston

Dan Breen, Professor of the Practice of Legal Studies at Brandeis University, tells the story of Frankie, a drug-sniffing dog that Miami detectives brought to a suspected marijuana grower's front porch in 2006. The alert led to a warrant and a conviction, and to the question of whether the sniff was itself an unreasonable search; the case reached the Supreme Court as Florida v. Jardines in 2013.