NEWS FLASH, NJ Supreme Court Rules: Motor Vehicle stop extended for 40 minutes in order to wait for Drug Sniffing dog deemed acceptable in New Jersey

State v. Nelson, New Jersey Supreme Court Decided May 8, 2019  Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. Commentary:  The court rules that a 40 minute wait for a drug sniffing dog to arrive based on relatively flimsy ‘independent reasonable and articulable suspicion” of the detective who conducted a motor vehicle stop was not…