Supreme Court Rules Raw Cannabis Smell Justifies Search of Vehicle
Just months after ruling that the smell of burnt cannabis alone cannot justify a police officer subsequently searching a vehicle, as we covered here, the Illinois Supreme Court found that the opposite holds true for raw cannabis alone and its smell does satisfy the probable cause needed to justify a police search. After marijuana was legalized in Illinois in 2019, there were challenges to the long-standing precedent in Illinois that the smell of marijuana by itself provided the justification needed for police to search a vehicle. Earlier this year…
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