{"id":28437,"date":"2017-08-04T08:10:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T13:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28437"},"modified":"2017-08-04T08:10:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T13:10:41","slug":"cal-1st-smell-of-mj-on-the-person-is-at-worst-indicative-of-an-infraction-and-it-cant-justify-a-search-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28437","title":{"rendered":"Cal.1st: Smell of MJ on the person is at worst indicative of an infraction and it can&#8217;t justify a search incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers were attracted to a group of youths in an area known for potential gang violence. They approached them and informed defendant that he smelled of marijuana and searched him. Because smelling of marijuana isn\u2019t a crime and possession of less than an ounce is an infraction, there was no offense for a search incident. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.ca.gov\/opinions\/documents\/A145470A.PDF\">In re D.W.<\/a>, 2017 Cal. App. LEXIS 670 (1st Dist. July 6, 2017), published Aug. 2, 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers were attracted to a group of youths in an area known for potential gang violence. They approached them and informed defendant that he smelled of marijuana and searched him. Because smelling of marijuana isn\u2019t a crime and possession of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28437\">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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-incident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28437","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=28437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28438,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28437\/revisions\/28438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}