Testimony On Police Dog’s Ability To Detect Odors Of Fleeing Suspects Upheld

(August 28, 2018, 11:24 AM EDT) -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Trial counsel for a man convicted of burglarizing a home was not inadequate for not objecting to a police officer’s nonexpert opinions about his police dog’s ability to track fleeing suspects by the different odors they emit because an objection would have been meritless, a Florida appeals court decided Aug. 24 in affirming the conviction (Charles Johnson v. Florida, No. 1D16-3986, Fla. App., 1st Dist., 2018 Fla. App. LEXIS 11997)....

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