mr. o'connor. mr. chief justice, it may please the court the big issue that starts in this case that whether after completing the task related to a traffic stop whether an officer without individualized suspicion can hold the driver for a dog sniff specific question in this case is whether officer strubel was entitled to piggy back an already completed traffic offense with probable cause onto that traffic offense for an investigation of mr. rodriguez involving nothing more than a hunch. that is the question of the case. >> but that remains -- that wasn't reached by the court of appeals. the district court as you pointed out rejected the argument that there was probable cause saying it's nothing more than a hunch but that was not reviewed by the court of appeals so that could still be open. >> the decision of the court of appeals your honor absolutely. that was a dimimus ruling. they did not reach the question as to whether there was reasonable suspicion and left it just based on their ruling of whether