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        "text": "right to appeal the denial, he pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute a controlled",
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        "text": "substance following a prior conviction for a serious drug felony, see 21 U.S.C.",
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        "text": "§§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A), 846, and 851, and to carrying a firearm during and in relation",
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        "text": "trafficking crime, see 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C)(i). Colquhoun now appeals the court’s",
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        "text": "In denying the motion, the district court explained that officers stopped the car",
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        "text": "While the dog did its work, the two officers who approached Hogan sought to",
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        "text": "officers explained this process at the suppression hearing: Officers first confirm the",
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        "text": "person’s name and date of birth and transmit them to dispatch; dispatch then sends",
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        "text": "a message to the agency that issued the warrant to determine whether it remains valid;",
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        "text": "and if the issuing agency confirms the warrant’s validity, dispatch will advise the",
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        "text": "officers in the field so they can arrest the suspect. One of the officers testified that the",
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      {
        "text": "whole process usually takes ten to fifteen minutes. In this particular case, it took",
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        "text": "about ten minutes.",
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      {
        "text": "“On review of a motion to suppress, we review factual findings for clear error",
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        "text": "and legal conclusions de novo.” United States v. Hamdan, 168 F.4th 1087, 1090 (8th",
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        "text": "Cir. 2026). On appeal, Colquhoun does not take issue with the officers’ decision to",
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        "text": "stop his car to investigate Hogan; rather, he says that since Hogan was no longer in",
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        "text": "the car by the time the dog finished its task, “the mission of the stop was completed",
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        "text": "as to Mr. Colquhoun,” meaning that officers unconstitutionally prolonged the stop so",
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        "text": "the dog could sniff the car. It is true that “[a] constitutionally permissible traffic stop",
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        "text": "under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. See United States v. Nguyen, 59 F.4th",
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        "text": "958, 964 (8th Cir. 2023). So the relevant question becomes simply whether in the",
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        "text": "alerted on the car, giving officers probable cause to search it. See United States v.",
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