{"id":63714,"date":"2026-03-28T09:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63714"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:57:23","slug":"oh8-smell-of-mj-in-car-alone-no-longer-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63714","title":{"rendered":"OH8: Smell of MJ in car alone no longer PC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The smell of marijuana in a car alone isn\u2019t probable cause in Ohio anymore because of legalization, quoting State v. Gray, 2025-Ohio-4607, \u00b6 61 (1st Dist. Oct. 3, 2025). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/8\/2026\/2026-Ohio-1045.pdf\">State v. Tucker<\/a>, 2026-Ohio-1045 (8th Dist. Mar. 26, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Challenging only the legal sufficiency of the warrant doesn\u2019t entitle defendant to an evidentiary hearing. United States v. Virgen, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 63086 (C.D. Cal. Mar. 19, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s arrest was justified by probable cause. The further search was attenuated from the arrest anyway. United States v. First, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 63392 (D. Mont. Mar. 25, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lack of a video doesn\u2019t make the traffic stop invalid. The officer\u2019s testimony is credited. United States v. Perez-Mejia, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64231 (D. Minn. Mar. 26, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smell of marijuana in a car alone isn\u2019t probable cause in Ohio anymore because of legalization, quoting State v. Gray, 2025-Ohio-4607, \u00b6 61 (1st Dist. Oct. 3, 2025). State v. Tucker, 2026-Ohio-1045 (8th Dist. Mar. 26, 2026). Challenging only &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63714\">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":[50,51,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-plain-view","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63714","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=63714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63715,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63714\/revisions\/63715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}