{"id":64102,"date":"2026-05-19T14:23:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64102"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:23:50","slug":"e-d-cal-just-because-one-officer-smelled-tobacco-in-defs-pipe-didnt-mean-others-couldnt-sniff-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64102","title":{"rendered":"E.D.Cal.: Just because one officer smelled tobacco in def&#8217;s pipe didn&#8217;t mean others couldn&#8217;t sniff, too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just because one officer sniffed defendant\u2019s pipe and smelled tobacco, that didn\u2019t mean other officers couldn\u2019t sniff too and come to a different conclusion. United States v. Gearheart, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 109593 (E.D. Cal. May 18, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The odor of alcohol isn\u2019t enough for a BAC warrant, but here there were more facts. State v. Vonduyke, 2026 Del. Super. LEXIS 215 (May 15, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant can\u2019t seek return of property seized in 2019 that he agreed in the plea agreement to forfeit. United States v. Burkhow, 25-3002 (8th Cir. May 19, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWithout needing to decide whether the Officers&#8217; conduct constituted a constitutional violation, we conclude below that the law was not clearly established at the time of the Officers&#8217; conduct.\u201d Johnson v. Salter, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 14075 (5th Cir. May 15, 2026),*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because one officer sniffed defendant\u2019s pipe and smelled tobacco, that didn\u2019t mean other officers couldn\u2019t sniff too and come to a different conclusion. United States v. Gearheart, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 109593 (E.D. Cal. May 18, 2026).* The odor &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64102\">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":[55,40,35,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-testing","category-qualified-immunity","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-rule-41g-return-of-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64102","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=64102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64103,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64102\/revisions\/64103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}