{"id":1322,"date":"2007-12-08T15:04:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T08:38:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T08:38:19","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"Possession of a small quantity of marijuana on defendant&#8217;s person did not justify search of vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Possession of a small quantity of marijuana on defendant&#8217;s person during a legitimate patfrisk (a Massachusetts word) did not justify search of his vehicle because there is no automatic nexus. Officers were, however, justified in a &#8220;protective search&#8221; of the vehicle for weapons, and the search was valid on that ground. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malawyersweekly.com\/signup\/opinion.cfm?page=ma\/opin\/coa\/1118507.htm\">Commonwealth v. Pena<\/a>, 69 Mass. App. Ct. 713, 871 N.E.2d 531 (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Odor of marijuana; United States v. Scott, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64782 (N.D. Ohio August 31, 2007)*; or burnt marijuana; United States v. Hamilton, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 65082 (S.D. Ga. August 31, 2007)*; is probable cause for search of whole vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Officers had reasonable suspicion to stop defendant&#8217;s car after it left a house to be searched under a warrant. There was a reasonable chain of inferences supporting possession in the car. United States v. Magana, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64900 (E.D. Cal. August 16, 2007).*<\/p>\n<p>The record supports the conclusion that the officer had reasonable suspicion to slightly detain the defendant and ask for consent during a traffic stop. Lindsey v. State, 287 Ga. App. 412, 651 S.E.2d 531 (2007).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1322\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}