{"id":6897,"date":"2012-03-30T06:19:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T06:19:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T06:19:24","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6897","title":{"rendered":"OH distinguishes between \u201clight\u201d and \u201cstrong\u201d odor of marijuana for search of trunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio distinguishes between \u201clight\u201d and \u201cstrong\u201d odor of marijuana to determine whether smell is enough to search the trunk. Here, it was \u201cstrong.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/11\/2012\/2012-ohio-1270.pdf\">State v. Ivery<\/a>, 2012 Ohio 1270, 2012 Ohio App. LEXIS 1120 (11th Dist. March 26, 2012):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[*P25]  However, the Ohio Supreme Court has also held that&#8221;[t]he odor of burnt marijuana in the passenger compartment of a vehicle does not, standing alone, establish probable cause for a warrantless search of the trunk of the  vehicle.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=11310047943713387768&amp;q=849+N.E.2d+985&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,4\">State v. Farris<\/a>, 109 Ohio St.3d 519, 2006 Ohio 3255, 849 N.E.2d 985, \u00b6 52 (where the officer detected only a &#8220;light&#8221; odor of marijuana and no contraband was found in the passenger compartment of the vehicle, a search of the trunk was improper).<\/p>\n<p>[*P26]  We hold that the search in this case falls under the automobile exception and that Shum did have probable cause to extend the search to include the vehicle&#8217;s trunk. Many courts have found cases with similar circumstances to be distinguishable from Farris, such that a search into the trunk of the vehicle is proper under the automobile exception. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[*P27]  In the present case, Shum testified that he smelled a &#8220;very strong&#8221; odor of marijuana upon approaching the car. In addition, after searching the interior of the car, he saw what he described as little &#8220;bits of marijuana.&#8221; Upon speaking with Ivery, Shum was also informed that Ivery had been smoking marijuana that day. When considering all of these factors together, this case is distinguishable from Farris, and Shum had sufficient probable cause to search the trunk of the vehicle in addition to the interior.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6897\">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-6897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897","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=6897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}