{"id":33675,"date":"2018-07-01T06:40:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T11:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33675"},"modified":"2018-07-01T06:40:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T11:40:47","slug":"md-odor-of-mj-from-the-person-is-pc-to-search-the-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33675","title":{"rendered":"MD: Odor of MJ from the person is PC to search the person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The odor of marijuana provides probable cause to believe that marijuana is present, and therefore, the smell of marijuana emanating from a vehicle provides probable cause to believe that contraband or evidence of a crime will be in the vehicle authorizing a search of the vehicle. In determining whether the smell of marijuana gives probable cause to arrest a person, however, whether the person is in a vehicle or standing in a public place, the key inquiry is whether the circumstances sufficiently link that person to the suspected criminal activity. The odor of marijuana, if localized to a particular person, provides probable cause to arrest that person for the crime of possession of marijuana. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.state.md.us\/data\/opinions\/cosa\/2018\/1115s17.pdf\">Lewis v. State<\/a>, 2018 Md. App. LEXIS 624 (June 28, 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The odor of marijuana provides probable cause to believe that marijuana is present, and therefore, the smell of marijuana emanating from a vehicle provides probable cause to believe that contraband or evidence of a crime will be in the vehicle &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33675\">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":[51,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plain-view","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33675","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=33675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33676,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33675\/revisions\/33676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}