Judge Wood Beats Dog

A rolled up newspaper of a benchslap.

Lex is lucky the Canine Training Institute doesn’t calculate class rank. If it did, Lex would have been at the bottom of his class.

— Chief Judge Diane Wood, beating up — rhetorically — on a poor K-9 dog whose shocking inaccuracy (Lex signals that drugs are present 93 percent of the time) renders him a walking pretextual search generator for his handlers. The court ultimately upheld conviction below, but couldn’t help but roll up a newspaper and benchslap Lex and his handlers. The Seventh Circuit opinion also pointed out that the police — unbelievably — gave Lex “rewards” every time he alerted them to drugs, whether or not he turned out to be correct.

Bad dog.

Feel free to check out the whole opinion on the next page…

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