United States v. Warren D. Turner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the presence of drug paraphernalia on driver’s lap and drugs behind the driver’s seat authorized a warrantless search of the vehicle, including its trunk
• holding smell of burnt marijuana, plus cigar blunt and clear plastic bag of weed- like material, provided probable cause to believe the vehicle contained contraband which permitted officers to conduct search of vehicle includ- ing the trunk
• holding smell of burnt marijuana, plus cigar blunt and clear plastic bag of weed- like material, provided probable cause to believe the vehicle contained contraband which permitted officers to conduct search of vehicle includ- ing the trunk
• finding officers had probable cause to search locked trunk of a car after smelling burning marijuana in the car
• finding probable cause to search vehicle when there was the “smell of burnt marijuana emanating from the car, the pieces of torn cigar paper arrayed around [the defendant], and the ziplock bag of green weed material found on the floor behind his seat”
• probable cause based on smell of marijuana and information known to police officer regarding a truck that slipped over the U.S. border

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).