Should a dog's sniff be enough to convict a person for murder?

Re:Should a dog's sniff be enough to convict a person for mu... by taneq on Saturday October 30, 2021 @11:14AM (#29049417)

If you’d spent the last 40 years telling jurors that fortune tellers were the gold standard for detecting drug mules then yeah. The issue is that we’ve been sold the idea that drug dogs are effective, not that jurors are gullible.

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Re:Should a dog's sniff be enough to convict a person for mu... by ClumsyPilot on Saturday October 30, 2021 @12:50PM (#29050207)

"The issue is that we’ve been sold the idea that drug dogs are effective, not that jurors are gullible."

But we know that they are gullible, they take police as a trustworthy source of information and assume police would not mislead them. Nimerous studies have shown that.

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Re:Should a dog's sniff be enough to convict a person for mu... by chmod600 on Saturday October 30, 2021 @11:56AM (#29049772)

And we believe that dogs are noble beyond any doubt. But maybe the dog just wants the handler to smile, take her home, and give her a steak?

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