Court Opinion

ID: 9511320
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 22:03:46.798232+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:04:58.037984
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE RICE
specially concurring.
¶29 I concur in the Court’s holding, but on the basis set forth in my concurring opinion in State v. Tackitt, 2003 MT 81, 315 Mont. 59, 67 P.3d 295. I do not believe there is an expectation of privacy which society finds as objectively reasonable in contraband odors which are allowed to emanate into public places. Neither do I believe there were other privacy interests at issue under the facts of this case which would have prohibited police employment of a canine sniff without a warrant.