{"id":26775,"date":"2017-04-14T11:19:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T16:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26775"},"modified":"2017-04-14T11:19:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T16:19:14","slug":"wv-smell-of-burning-mj-coming-from-defs-house-was-justification-to-enter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26775","title":{"rendered":"WV: Smell of burning MJ coming from def&#8217;s house was justification to enter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers approaching defendant\u2019s house could smell marijuana. When the door was opened, the smell got stronger, and that justified a warrantless entry. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courtswv.gov\/supreme-court\/memo-decisions\/spring2017\/16-0892memo.pdf\">State v. Ott<\/a>, 2017 W. Va. LEXIS 256 (April 10, 2017) (memorandum).<\/p>\n<p>The CI never said he was 100% sure about the facts he passed on, and he qualified the second-hand information. He was texting the officer, and the information was contemporaneous  eyewitness information. United States v. Palmer, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53496 (E.D. Pa. April 7, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers approaching defendant\u2019s house could smell marijuana. When the door was opened, the smell got stronger, and that justified a warrantless entry. State v. Ott, 2017 W. Va. LEXIS 256 (April 10, 2017) (memorandum). The CI never said he was &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26775\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-plain-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26775","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=26775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26776,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26775\/revisions\/26776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}