{"id":25821,"date":"2017-02-14T10:43:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T15:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25821"},"modified":"2017-02-14T10:43:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T15:43:14","slug":"tx11-smell-of-mj-from-car-and-defs-person-justified-search-of-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25821","title":{"rendered":"TX11: Smell of MJ from car and def&#8217;s person justified search of both"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The smell of marijuana coming from a car and then defendant\u2019s person when he got out is probable cause to search both. Defendant said he smoked all the marijuana five hours before the stop. Then he was found chewing it, so he was charged with tampering with evidence, too. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=27e788b4-a4a3-4f34-8fe6-2ca9610403eb&#038;MediaID=ce7e1794-b921-416e-8a4a-cc276c2046d1&#038;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&#038;DT=Opinion\">Deleon v. State<\/a>, 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 1176 (Tex. App. \u2013 Eastland Feb. 10, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Defense counsel declined to challenge the probable cause for defendant\u2019s arrest because he determined there clearly was a basis for it. Moreover, defendant said at the plea he was satisfied with defense counsel. <a href=\"http:\/\/courts.delaware.gov\/Opinions\/Download.aspx?id=252350\">State v. Johnson<\/a>, 2017 Del. Super. LEXIS 59 (Feb. 7, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smell of marijuana coming from a car and then defendant\u2019s person when he got out is probable cause to search both. Defendant said he smoked all the marijuana five hours before the stop. Then he was found chewing it, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25821\">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":[23,51,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ineffective-assistance","category-plain-view","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25822,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25821\/revisions\/25822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}