Dog Training Expert Can Opine On Police Dog’s Reliability, Judge Decides

Mealey's (January 16, 2019, 12:50 PM EST) -- PEORIA, Ill. — An expert in police dog training meets the qualification, reliability and relevance standards to opine on the reliability of Lex, a police dog whose training and ability to detect narcotics are in dispute in a civil rights lawsuit over a traffic stop in which Lex alerted to the odor of narcotics in a car where none were later found, an Illinois federal judge held Jan. 15 (Donnelly Jackson, et al. v. Bloomington, et al., No. 17-cv-1046, C.D. Ill., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 6895)....