{"id":49572,"date":"2021-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=49572"},"modified":"2021-09-06T16:46:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T21:46:27","slug":"in-training-of-smell-of-mj-enough-for-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=49572","title":{"rendered":"IN: Training of smell of MJ enough for PC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The distinctive smell of marijuana is enough for probable cause, and the officer&#8217;s training is enough to tell it. <a href=\"https:\/\/public.courts.in.gov\/Decisions\/api\/Document\/Opinion?Id=Hq53AT9gDroJKDuSfCnM6CLSSXo5hdJEZeZ8V5QPRFDtTbHq27_Fs3K3-byidQFk0\">Bunnell v. State<\/a>, 2021 Ind. LEXIS 545 (Sept. 2, 2021):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Weed, grass, herb, endo, chronic\u2014despite its many nicknames, no other substance has the distinct, pungent, and pervasive odor of raw marijuana. And law enforcement officers are specifically taught to detect this odor as part of Indiana\u2019s standard police academy training \u2014 training they frequently put into use in the field.<\/p><p>With those considerations in mind, we must answer a question of first impression: whether an officer who attests only that they possess the necessary training and experience to detect the smell of raw marijuana allows a warrant-issuing judicial officer to infer that the affiant is qualified to recognize this odor. Because trained and experienced law enforcement officers require no exceptional olfactory acuity to identify the distinctive scent of raw marijuana, an officer seeking a search warrant on this basis need not detail their qualifications\u2014beyond their \u201ctraining and experience\u201d\u2014to identify the drug\u2019s smell. We therefore affirm the trial court\u2019s denial of Bunnell\u2019s motion to suppress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The distinctive smell of marijuana is enough for probable cause, and the officer&#8217;s training is enough to tell it. Bunnell v. State, 2021 Ind. LEXIS 545 (Sept. 2, 2021):<\/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-49572","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\/49572","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=49572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49573,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49572\/revisions\/49573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}