{"id":61634,"date":"2025-08-09T10:31:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T15:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61634"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:31:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T15:31:52","slug":"tx7-odor-of-mj-is-pc-thats-tx-precedent-and-out-of-state-cases-dont-carry-any-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61634","title":{"rendered":"TX7: Odor of MJ is PC; that&#8217;s TX precedent, and out of state cases don&#8217;t carry any weight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The odor of cannabis is still probable cause in Texas. \u201cEmerging case law\u201d in other states doesn\u2019t matter because of Texas precedent. <a href=\"https:\/\/search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=727b0334-2e7f-437c-a09f-aefcb72d5f5e&amp;MediaID=4fd8a202-7a84-4ef8-985c-d92a01950af6&amp;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&amp;DT=Opinion\">Parras v. State<\/a>, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 5954 (Tex. App. \u2013 Amarillo Aug. 8, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant had no standing to challenge the search of the car of a codefendant he was not connected to. United States v. Allen, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 151770 (E.D. La. Aug. 7, 2025);* United States v. Thin Elk, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 19902 (8th Cir. Aug. 7, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trial court doesn\u2019t buy that the little baggie of meth was in plain view during this otherwise valid traffic stop. Motion to suppress granted. Guam v. Mesa, 2025 Guam Trial Order LEXIS 154 (July 28, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These digital data warrants were limited and not overbroad, and didn\u2019t sweep up information that the police didn\u2019t need. State v. Dimolfetto, 342 Or. App. 456 (Aug. 6, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The odor of cannabis is still probable cause in Texas. \u201cEmerging case law\u201d in other states doesn\u2019t matter because of Texas precedent. Parras v. State, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 5954 (Tex. App. \u2013 Amarillo Aug. 8, 2025). Defendant had no &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61634\">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":[12,51,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-searches","category-plain-view","category-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61634","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=61634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61635,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61634\/revisions\/61635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}