Bretton Westmoreland v. Butler Cnty.

How courts have described this case

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• observation that defendant had used marijuana, without any indication of his intent to distribute, did not justify warrant-less search of his person
• “the intent expressed by the Legislature [is] that, generally speaking, controlled substances are not to be obtained ‘on the street’ ”
• “[T]he term ‘sell’ or ‘sale’ is narrower than the term ‘distribution’ and we agree with the judge that they are not synonymous”
• no probable cause to search where police did not observe any illegal or suspicious behavior of defendant indicating intent to distribute marijuana
• direct product of unlawful search must be suppressed
• probable cause on motion to suppress

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).