{"id":38008,"date":"2019-06-06T08:42:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T13:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38008"},"modified":"2019-06-06T08:42:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T13:42:58","slug":"ia-smell-of-mj-alone-is-pc-for-a-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38008","title":{"rendered":"IA: Smell of MJ alone is PC for a search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIowa Supreme Court precedent holds that the odor of marijuana emanating from a person, by itself, when detected by a police officer, who has adequate knowledge and training to recognize the smell, constitutes probable cause. The district court incorrectly found otherwise and improperly granted Carter&#8217;s motion to suppress.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowacourts.gov\/courtcases\/6226\/embed\/CourtAppealsOpinion\">State v. Carter<\/a>, 2019 Iowa App. LEXIS 588 (June 5, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>There was reasonable suspicion for defendant\u2019s stop after he came down a dead end street of closed businesses at 2 am. Simple questions about what he was doing led to further reasonable suspicion. The request for consent to search was also reasonable and minimally invasive. <a href=\"https:\/\/wicourts.gov\/ca\/opinion\/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&#038;seqNo=241571\">State v. Brown<\/a>, 2019 Wisc. App. LEXIS 312 (June 5, 2019).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIowa Supreme Court precedent holds that the odor of marijuana emanating from a person, by itself, when detected by a police officer, who has adequate knowledge and training to recognize the smell, constitutes probable cause. The district court incorrectly found &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38008\">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":[51,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plain-view","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38008","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=38008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38009,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38008\/revisions\/38009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}