{"id":50039,"date":"2021-10-26T07:01:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50039"},"modified":"2021-10-26T07:01:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T12:01:14","slug":"oh12-smell-of-burning-mj-from-a-car-is-pc-even-in-a-mmj-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50039","title":{"rendered":"OH12: Smell of burning MJ from a car is PC even in a MMJ state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe smell of marijuana, alone, by a person qualified to recognize the odor, is sufficient to establish probable cause to conduct a search. \u2026 The odor of burnt marijuana was indicative of probable cause in this situation even though Caldwell had a medical marijuana card, because under Ohio&#8217;s Medical Marijuana Control Program, \u2018[t]he smoking or combustion of medical marijuana is prohibited.\u2019 R.C. 3796.06(B)(1).\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/12\/2021\/2021-Ohio-3777.pdf\">State v. Caldwell<\/a>, 2021-Ohio-3777, 2021 Ohio App. LEXIS 3692 (12th Dist. Oct. 25, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s claim the CI was insufficiently corroborated to show probable cause is incorrect. There was plenty. The affidavit was also not stale. While the CI\u2019s information was four weeks old, there was other information two weeks old. Staleness is case by case, and there\u2019s no fixed formula. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca2.uscourts.gov\/decisions\/isysquery\/08d35b50-8508-4c52-a763-12112e195a18\/3\/doc\/21-19_so.pdf#xml=https:\/\/www.ca2.uscourts.gov\/decisions\/isysquery\/08d35b50-8508-4c52-a763-12112e195a18\/3\/hilite\/\">United States v. Torres-Fernandez<\/a>, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 31910 (2d Cir. Oct. 25, 2021).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe smell of marijuana, alone, by a person qualified to recognize the odor, is sufficient to establish probable cause to conduct a search. \u2026 The odor of burnt marijuana was indicative of probable cause in this situation even though Caldwell &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50039\">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":[44,51,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay","category-plain-view","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50039","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=50039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50040,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50039\/revisions\/50040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}