By: Ncw Staff
August 20, 2019
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Can the police search you for smelling like marinuana?
Police still can use the smell of marijuana as justification to search a vehicle, the opinion said. But they can’t search anyone in the vehicle unless they find evidence of a crime, not even if police find a small amount of marijuana.
“The same facts and circumstances that justify a search of an automobile do not necessarily justify an arrest and search incident thereto. This is based on the heightened expectation of privacy one enjoys in his or her person as compared to the diminished expectation of privacy one has in an automobile,” the court wrote.
Ref – https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-cr-marijuana-opinion-20190815-f5eqymioevej5laapnhz6jucfm-story.html%3FoutputType%3Damp