Supreme Court of Connecticut April 15, 1997, 15471 (State v. Waz)

lead-opinion

Opinion

PALMER, J.

The sole issue presented by this appeal is whether article first, § 7, of the Connecticut constitution1 prohibits the police from subjecting a mail parcel in the possession of the United States Postal Service to a canine sniff examination by a trained narcotics detection dog based upon a reasonable and articulable suspicion that the mail contains illegal drugs.