{"id":6448,"date":"2012-01-19T18:25:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T11:55:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T11:55:56","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6448","title":{"rendered":"OH5: Smell of marijuana from car justified search of whole thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers smelled marijuana during a traffic stop, and that gave probable cause as to the entire car, including a passenger\u2019s purse. \u201c[O]nce probable cause exists to search the vehicle, the entire vehicle may be searched. [\u00b6] A police officer with probable cause to search a vehicle may inspect a passenger\u2019s belongings found in the car which are capable of concealing an object of the search. <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=10549130397982197067&amp;q=wyoming+v.+hougton&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,4\">Wyoming v. Houghton<\/a> (1999), 526 U.S. 295, 119 S. Ct. 1297, 143 L. Ed. 2d 408.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/5\/2011\/2011-ohio-6550.pdf\">State v. Abbuhl<\/a>, 2011 Ohio 6550, 2011 Ohio App. LEXIS 5401 (5th Dist. December 14, 2011).*<\/p>\n<p>There was probable cause for plaintiff\u2019s arrest for shooting down a police helicopter, even though the charges were dropped and he wasn\u2019t convicted. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca10.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/09\/09-2273.pdf\">Kerns v. Bader<\/a>, 663 F.3d 1173 (10th Cir. 2011).* <\/p>\n<p>When computer checks came back clean, the officer was required to have new reasonable suspicion to continue the stop. Here it was a rental agreement that didn\u2019t make sense, and defendant was a serial driver of rented cars. Then came a dog alert, and that was probable cause for a full search. United States v. Reid, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 146170 (W.D. La. November 14, 2011), adopted 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 146184 (W.D. La., Dec. 20, 2011).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6448\">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-6448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448","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=6448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}