{"id":3751,"date":"2010-07-06T17:28:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T07:08:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T07:08:57","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3751","title":{"rendered":"CA4: Odor of marijuana from a car PC to search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Odor of marijuana was enough probable cause for a search during an otherwise valid traffic stop. <a href=\"http:\/\/pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinion.pdf\/085022.U.pdf\">United States v. Lesane<\/a>, 361 Fed. Appx. 537 (4th Cir. 2010) (unpublished).*<\/p>\n<p>For inevitable discovery to apply in the Second Circuit, there must be a \u201chigh level of confidence\u201d that the search warrant would have issued. United States v. Cabassa, 62 F.3d 470 (2d Cir. 1995).  United States v. Wilke, 689 F. Supp. 2d 455 (W.D. N.Y. 2010).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s consent during a traffic stop was shown by the government to be free and voluntary. The consent was rather easily achieved, shortly into the stop, and defendant did not have a right to be informed of his right to refuse. United States v. Cousin, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3688 (E.D. Tenn. January 19, 2010).*<\/p>\n<p>First entry into house was by consent, and that produced a small bag of marijuana.  That observation validly made it into the search warrant request which authorized a greater search. United States v. McNeil, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3747 (M.D. Pa. January 19, 2010).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3751\">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-3751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751","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=3751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}