CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 374
Dog Tracking Evidence
Y ou have received evidence about the use of a tracking dog. Y ou may not
conclude that the defendant is the person who committed the crime
based only on the fact that a dog indicated the defendant [or a location].
Before you may rely on dog tracking evidence, there must be:
1. Evidence of the dog’s general reliability as a tracker;
AND
2. Other evidence that the dog accurately followed a trail that led to
the person who committed the crime. This other evidence does
not need to independently link the defendant to the crime.
In deciding the meaning and importance of the dog tracking evidence,
consider the training, skill, and experience, if any, of the dog, its trainer,
and its handler, together with everything else that you learned about the
dog’s work in this case.
New January 2006
Provenance
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- courts.ca.gov
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- 2026-08-20
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- calcrim-2019
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