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· 4/8/2008

Bunch v. Commonwealth

Citations

  • 658 S.E.2d 724
  • 51 Va. App. 491
  • 2008 Va. App. LEXIS 169

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • adopting the plain smell doctrine and concluding that an officer who smells marijuana has probable cause to seize and search
  • finding the odor of marijuana emanating from a vehicle sufficient to justify a search
  • upholding a search under the Fourth Amendment based on the odor of marijuana
  • first quoting Cost v. Commonwealth, 275 Va. 246, 251 (2008); and then quoting Malbrough v. Commonwealth, 275 Va. 163, 168 (2008)

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Judges: D. Arthur Kelsey

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