{"id":22074,"date":"2016-05-12T06:51:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T11:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22074"},"modified":"2016-05-12T06:51:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T11:51:02","slug":"nc-defs-bizarre-travel-plans-nervousness-masking-odors-and-smell-of-mj-was-rs-even-to-the-uninitiated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22074","title":{"rendered":"NC: Def’s bizarre travel plans, nervousness, masking odors, and smell of MJ was RS even to the uninitiated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on defendant’s bizarre travel plans, his nervousness, the use of masking odors, the smell of marijuana on him, and the third-party registration of the vehicle, even an untrained person would doubt defendant’s story. Thus, the officer, a 15-year veteran with interdiction training, had reasonable suspicion to extend the stop and could run such additional records checks as he believed reasonable until his investigation was complete. Still, the checks were done relatively quickly. State v. Castillo<\/a>, 2016 N.C. App. LEXIS 502 (May 3, 2016).*<\/p>\n

Defendant\u2019s consent was shown to be voluntary, and he signed consent to search forms. United States v. Doan, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56527 (E.D.Va. April 27, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based on defendant’s bizarre travel plans, his nervousness, the use of masking odors, the smell of marijuana on him, and the third-party registration of the vehicle, even an untrained person would doubt defendant’s story. Thus, the officer, a 15-year veteran … Continue reading →<\/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":[24,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22074","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=22074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22076,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22074\/revisions\/22076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}