New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 5/3/2019

State v. Rodriguez

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207 A.3d 272
459 N.J. Super. 13

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explaining that automobile searches are permissible where \(1) the police have probable cause to believe the vehicle contains evidence of a criminal offense; and (2) the circumstances giving rise to probable cause are unforeseeable and spontaneous\
denying suppression of evidence discovered during a warrantless automobile search because the officer smelled raw marijuana
noting Witt \announced . . . a sharp departure from a more narrow construction of the automobile exception the Court had previously adopted\
\[I]t is not our role as an intermediate appellate court to engraft upon [a New Jersey Supreme Court decision] an exception that was not expressed in the Court's detailed majority opinion.\
similarly yielding to the Supreme Court in fashioning new constitutional principles

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Judges: Mitterhoff, Sabatino, Sumners

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