{"id":2819,"date":"2009-04-18T06:15:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T07:25:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T07:25:11","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2819","title":{"rendered":"IN: Officer&#8217;s qualification to determine smell of marijuana not shown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officer&#8217;s qualifications to determine the smell of raw marijuana was not shown, so the search fails. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in.gov\/judiciary\/opinions\/pdf\/12230811jsk.pdf\">State v. Holley<\/a>, 899 N.E.2d 31 (Ind. App. December 23, 2008).<\/p>\n<p>Where the officers did not enter the house, it could not be characterized as a knock and talk. The entry here was to a commercial part of the property. The &#8220;no trespassing&#8221; sign did not create an expectation that officers would not approach the property. <a href=\"http:\/\/mdcourts.gov\/opinions\/coa\/2008\/37a08.pdf\">Jones v. State<\/a>, 407 Md. 33, 962 A.2d 393 (2008), affg <a href=\"http:\/\/mdcourts.gov\/opinions\/cosa\/2008\/875s07.pdf\">Jones v. State<\/a>, 178 Md. App. 454, 943 A.2d 1 (2008), posted <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/blog\/index.php?blog=1&amp;title=dog_sniff_of_a_car_on_a_school_parking_l&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>911 caller gave specific first hand information about a named and identified man with a gun who was threatening two women. The officer arrived and saw a man fitting the description who turned and walked away when he saw the officer. When the man was seen again, he was talking to two women, and this was sufficient corroboration[!]. Coupled with flight under <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=us&amp;vol=000&amp;invol=98-1036\">Wardlow<\/a>, there was reasonable suspicion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca10.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/07\/07-6220.pdf\">United States v. Robinson<\/a>, 304 Fed. Appx. 746 (10th Cir. 2008) (unpublished).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2819\">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-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","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=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}