[inquest]

The dog is not "searching" anything. He/she is simply smelling what is available in public. So, this is not an extra-ordinary decision or result.

But in Kyllo, the police were simply reading photons that were available in public, and the court ruled that they had violated the 4th. So there has to be more to the case than that.

[Congressman Billybob]

Yes, I am aware of Kyllo, the heat-lamp, drug case. There, however, the information "available" in public was not available to ordinary senses. i.e. olfactory, visual. etc. Actually, I thought that case was wrongly decided. Billybob