{"id":7868,"date":"2012-12-29T14:01:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T07:45:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T07:45:52","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7868","title":{"rendered":"OH11: Slight smell of MJ doesn&#8217;t justify search of trunk, but stronger smell does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under Ohio law, the smell of marijuana justifies a search of the interior but not necessarily a search of the trunk. Here it was a stronger smell, and the lack of any real quantity of marijuana in the passenger compartment justified a search of the trunk. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/11\/2012\/2012-ohio-4888.pdf\">State v. Perry<\/a>, 2012 Ohio 4888, 2012 Ohio App. LEXIS 4275 (11th Dist. October 22, 2012). [Note: This is one of those justifications that the officer can make up to overcome, so what&#8217;s the point?]<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[U]nlike a physical stop to check the vehicle&#8217;s license plate, a computerized license-plate check is not a seizure that implicates the Fourth Amendment.\u201d The LPN was checked without stopping the car. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us\/archive\/ctappub\/1210\/opa112303-102212.pdf\">State v. Setinich<\/a>, 822 N.W.2d 9 (Minn. App. 2012).<\/p>\n<p>The burden shifting of warrantless seizures and searches is applied here to identification procedures. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/11\/2012\/2012-ohio-4887.pdf\">State v. Withrow<\/a>, 2012 Ohio 4887, 2012 Ohio App. LEXIS 4276 (11th Dist. October 22, 2012).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7868\">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-7868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868","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=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}