United States v. Randy Alan Parker John Arthur Sorenson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that discovery of marijuana during pat-down and scent of burnt marijuana in passenger compartment provided probable cause to search vehicle
• holding, in a case involving the smell of burnt marijuana, that the “odor of marijuana in the passenger compartment of a vehicle does not, however, standing alone, establish probable cause to search the trunk of the vehicle”
• finding that if the defendants had a different version of the events than that related by the officer who failed to preserve the video recording, the defendants could have taken the stand and testified at the suppression hearing
• finding that if the defendants had a different version of the events than that related by the officer who failed to preserve the video recording, the defendants could have taken the stand and testified at the suppression hearing
• finding probable cause to search trunk based on smell of marijuana combined with corroborating evidence of contraband (powder residue and marijuana cigarette found on occupant)
• ―If an officer smells marijuana in the passenger compartment of a vehicle, he has probable cause to search the passenger compartment.‖

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).