Police and prosecutors were apparently convicting people of violent
crimes based almost exclusively on the “testimony” of a police dog
whose handler claimed has extraordinary powers.
Judges and juries apparently bought this crap for years. It finally
came to an end when Judge Gilbert Goshorn ordered the dog to perform a
basic tracking test after Preston claimed the dog had alerted to a
suspect’s scent at a crime scene six months after the murder. The dog failed.
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