Lindheim v. Abbott

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• observing that Moore does not require “‘additional factors to corroborate the suspicion of the presence of marijuana’”
• the smell of marijuana by a person qualified to recognize the odor is sufficient to establish probable cause to search a motor vehicle
• and then evaluating the general exigency exception in regards to the search of the defendant’s person
• an officer with probable cause to believe a person has drugs during a traffic stop need not leave the drugs in the person’s pocket while a warrant is obtained under the exigency exception
• “[t]he odor of marijuana was a reasonable ground for Sergeant Greene to believe that defendant was guilty of a drug-related criminal offense,” and, “[t]herefore, … Sergeant Greene had sufficient probable cause to conduct a search”
• but finding the particular circumstance alone met the test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).