Sarita Merricks v. Jeffery Adkisson

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• noting that “the smell of burnt marijuana emanating from a vehicle is sufficient probable cause to search a vehicle”
• noting that “the smell of burnt marijuana USCA11 Case: 24-12642 Document: 33-1 Date Filed: 07/11/2025 Page: 9 of 11 24-12642 Opinion of the Court 9 emanating from a vehicle is sufficient probable cause to search a vehicle”
• “[Qualified immunity] is also designed . . . to provide a direct way to end insubstantial claims on summary judgment.”
• “If gratuitous force was applied after the suspect was subdued or otherwise cooperating, qualified immunity will likely not apply[. . . ]”
• “Minor variations in some facts . . . might be very important and, therefore, be able to make the circumstances facing an official materially different than the pre-existing precedents[.]”(quotation omitted)
• “If . . . the force was applied when the officer was trying to take 9 Somewhat confusingly, Warren, citing Swann v. City of Huntsville, 455 So. 2d 944, 950 (Ala. Crim. App. 1984

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).