{"id":65033,"date":"2026-10-17T09:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65033"},"modified":"2026-10-17T09:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:24:16","slug":"vi-smell-of-mj-no-longer-pc-in-vi-since-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65033","title":{"rendered":"VI: Smell of MJ no longer PC in VI since legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since marijuana is legal in the Virgin Islands, the smell of marijuana from a car is no longer probable cause for a search. <a href=\"https:\/\/usvipublicportal-api.vicourts.org\/courts\/87edff36-c02b-4073-aea4-c0652bc123d9\/cms\/case\/C053F2AC-FBDB-4EC3-AF46-E3C2F7794A40\/docketentrydocuments\/9CCF2F8A-7E93-4277-8F37-922106A66B97\">People v. Thomas<\/a>, 2026 V.I. LEXIS 44 (Super. Ct. Oct. 6, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Petitioner does not get a CoA on his ineffective assistance of counsel claim for not raising a Fourth Amendment that could not prevail for lack of standing. Sindone v. Garcia, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 31449 (6th Cir. Oct. 15, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers had reasonable suspicion and then probable cause for defendant\u2019s stop. His eluding after that supported it. United States v. Requejo-Garcia, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 235645 (W.D. Okla. Oct. 15, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since marijuana is legal in the Virgin Islands, the smell of marijuana from a car is no longer probable cause for a search. People v. Thomas, 2026 V.I. LEXIS 44 (Super. Ct. Oct. 6, 2026). Petitioner does not get a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65033\">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":[23,51,20,35,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ineffective-assistance","category-plain-view","category-probable-cause","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65033","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=65033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65034,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65033\/revisions\/65034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}