citrano.com
Random Selection

We're running late this morning so just a quick but disturbing item from this week's Drug Sense Weekly. Louisiana State Judge Larry J. Green ruled that a drug-sniffing dog's random inspection of a Slidell parking lot didn't violate a motel guest's Fourth Amendment rights.

Detective James McIntosh of the St. Tammany Parish Drug Task Force, using a technique he learned at a law enforcement convention in Texas cruised the lot on a "fishing expedition" that eventually led to the discovery of heroin, cocaine and marijuana in the guest's room and car.

We are flabbergasted that the judge ruled this did not violate his Fourth Amendment rights and hope the defendant John Val Popoff appeals this ruling to a higher court. This would be dangerous precedent to leave on the books unchallenged.