Lil Wayne has attended a pre-trial hearing in relation to that previously reported incident which led to charges of possessing drugs and a handgun back in 2008. You may remember that the rap star - real name Dwayne Carter - was arrested at an Arizona checkpoint in January that year, after guards checked his tour bus, and allegedly found cocaine and ecstasy, as well as the aforementioned firearm.
Carter denied the charges, and his lawyer claims that it's possible that the sniffer dog who located the alleged drugs may not have been reliable. His request, however, to see the dog's training record was rejected. James Tilson said "If the dog is not reliable, then that puts the entire probable cause for the stop into question".
This confuses me somewhat - surely once the dog found the alleged drugs an expert would double check they really were an illegal substance? I mean, even if it turned out this sniffer dog was an award winner with a perfect record for sniffing out the Coke and E, surely the prosecution weren't planning on relying on his testimony alone? Oh well, whatever.
Carter is due back in court on 11 Aug.