# Drug-sniffing Dogs = Hearsay Evidence?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-sniffing-dogs-hearsay-evidence/55258
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [February 20, 2001, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-sniffing-dogs-hearsay-evidence/55258 "2001-02-20T22:16:35Z")
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### Author: ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-sniffing-dogs-hearsay-evidence/55258/61 "2001-02-23T18:35:32Z")

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> \*Originally posted by minty green \*  
> \*\*Although now that I think about it for a second more, it could well be that you and I are simply focusing on different things, **wring**. I’m looking at the reasonable expectation of privacy in heat escaping into the open air, and you’re looking at the reasonable expectation of privacy that people have behind the walls of their own home. I’d say both are valid concerns, but that the excess heat is fair game unless it directly reveals the activities of the persons behind the walls. Only then would I say that the “my home is my castle” interest trumps the “then don’t dump your hot air into the atmosphere” interest. \*\*

I should have previewed. yes, it seems that we are focusing on different aspects. I don’t deny that heat emissions themselves are fair game ourside of the house, but where they can be identified as coming from a specific part of the house, then, you’re inside, not outside of my domicile, and I’d say my home is my castle is the trump card there. We shall see if the Supremes agree.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled dog sniffing thread.

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