{"id":62065,"date":"2025-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62065"},"modified":"2025-10-04T17:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T22:35:02","slug":"oh1-with-legalization-of-marijuana-the-smell-of-marijuana-is-no-longer-probable-cause-in-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62065","title":{"rendered":"OH1: With legalization of marijuana, the smell of marijuana is no longer probable cause in itself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With legalization of marijuana, the smell of marijuana is no longer probable cause in itself. \u201cWhile the smell of marijuana remains a relevant factor under the totality of the circumstances to a probable-cause analysis, it is no longer sufficient, standing alone, to provide the required probable cause to search a vehicle pursuant to the automobile exception.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/1\/2025\/2025-Ohio-4607.pdf\">State v. Gray<\/a>, 2025-Ohio-4607 (1st Dist. Oct. 3, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant here satisfied his Franks burden of showing a lack of probable cause after the false information was excised. Motion to suppress granted. United States v. Wells, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 195302 (E.D. La. Oct. 2, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant moved to suppress photographs seized from his cell phone. The government doesn\u2019t resist. Granted. United States v. Hoppe, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 195251 (N.D. Iowa Oct. 2, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Petitioner\u2019s search claim was nearly identical to a prior claim and barred as a successor. In re Killen, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 25851 (11th Cir. Oct. 3, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With legalization of marijuana, the smell of marijuana is no longer probable cause in itself. \u201cWhile the smell of marijuana remains a relevant factor under the totality of the circumstances to a probable-cause analysis, it is no longer sufficient, standing &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62065\">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":[36,21,126,51,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile-exception","category-franks-doctrine","category-issue-preclusion","category-plain-view","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62065","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=62065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62066,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62065\/revisions\/62066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}