It was the first time a Florida appellate court ruled on the admissibility of cadaver dog evidence. Photo: Rolf Klebsattel/Shutterstock.
The Fourth District Court of Appeal Wednesday found that not all police dogs are created equal when it became the first appellate court in Florida to consider the admissibility of evidence from cadaver dogs — trained to detect the smell of human remains.
Weighing in on a second-degree murder conviction, the appellate panel ruled that courts must consider the reliability and work history of a dog on a case-by-case basis before admitting evidence of its sniffing assignments and related testimony into trial.
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