{"id":17760,"date":"2015-06-22T07:47:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T12:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17760"},"modified":"2015-06-22T07:51:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T12:51:02","slug":"ca8-faint-smell-of-marijuana-in-a-car-is-enough-for-a-search-how-do-you-differentiate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17760","title":{"rendered":"CA8: \u201cFaint smell\u201d of marijuana in a car is enough for a search; how do you differentiate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cfaint smell\u201d of marijuana in a car is enough for a search. The court declines to differentiate between faint and stronger. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/15\/06\/142846P.pdf\">United States v. Smith<\/a>, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 10337 (8th Cir. June 19, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>Second successive 2255 raising Fourth Amendment claim was denied. No reasonable jurist could question the prior results. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca10.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/15\/15-2070.pdf\">United States v. Coleman<\/a>, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 10341 (10th Cir. June 19, 2015).*<\/p>\n<p>Probable cause existed for a search warrant for a firearm where the CI said that defendant had an unlicensed firearm, presumptively a crime in NYC, and that defendant was going to \u201ckill someone.\u201d United States v. Melendez, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 78894 (S.D.N.Y. June 17, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cfaint smell\u201d of marijuana in a car is enough for a search. The court declines to differentiate between faint and stronger. United States v. Smith, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 10337 (8th Cir. June 19, 2015). Second successive 2255 raising &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17760\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17760","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17761,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17760\/revisions\/17761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}