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Brian Grimm v. Maryland

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Maryland, No. 37, September Term, 2017 · judgment April 20, 2018

Certiorari denied · October 1, 2018

Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

When a defendant challenges the reliability of a dog’s reported alert to the possible presence of drugs in a vehicle, in accordance with Florida v. Harris, 568 U.S. 237 (2013), and the trial court rules that the dog reliably alerted, which suffices to establish probable cause to search the vehicle, what standard of appellate review of the trial court’s ruling that the dog reliably alerted does the Fourth Amendment require?
Did the dog reliably alert to the possible presence of drugs in the vehicle driven by Petitioner for purposes of establishing probable cause to search the vehicle?

For petitioner
Jeffrey Mark Ross
Office of the Public Defender

For respondent
Carrie J. Williams
Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Oct 01 2018
Petition DENIED.
Sep 05 2018
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
Aug 21 2018
Waiver of right of respondent State of Maryland to respond filed.
Jul 19 2018
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 27, 2018)