Facts of the Case
During a traffic stop for a expired registration, police searched Clayton Harris's car after a drug detection dog alerted the officer. Police found over 200 loose pills of pseudoephedrine and materials to make methamphetamine. The drug detection dog was trained to find various drugs but not pseudoephedrine. Harris then argued that the dogs alert was false and was not probable cause to search the car. The court rejected Harris's argument by saying that under those certain circumstances that there was probable cause for the search. However Florida Supreme Court reversed saying that the State could not prove the drug detection dog's reliability and sufficiency in the field to show probable cause.