Commonwealth v. Overmyer

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the odor of unburnt marijuana cannot contribute to probable cause unless the officers are able to discern from the odor that a eriminal amount of marijuana is present
• holding that the odor of unburnt marijuana cannot contribute to probable cause unless the officers are able to discern from the odor that a criminal amount of marijuana is present
• stating that \characterizations of odors as strong or weak are inherently subjective\
• stating that “characterizations of odors as strong or weak are inherently subjective”
• discussing whether police officers can reliably predict quantity of marijuana through sense of smell so as to provide probable cause to search for criminal amount of marijuana
• but going on to say that “it does not follow that such an odor reliably predicts the presence of a criminal amount of the substance”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).