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Menlo Park police officer follows nose to pot bust
Original post made on Nov 6, 2014
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, November 6, 2014, 10:54 AM
Comments (7)
Posted by Civil Rights
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 6, 2014 at 2:20 pm
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 6, 2014 at 2:20 pm
Hold on a sec. Haven't the courts held that, in a traffic stop, a cop can't search a car merely because he says he smells marijuana? How is a home less open immune a search than a car?
Posted by Probation
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 6, 2014 at 2:27 pm
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 6, 2014 at 2:27 pm
If you are on probation, the police/probation officer can search your house w/o a warrant. Here, police made contact with the owner on the front lawn, determined he was on probation, then proceeded to search the house.
Posted by SteveC
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Nov 6, 2014 at 2:54 pm
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a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Nov 6, 2014 at 2:54 pm
SteveC is a registered user.
Good probable cause. No violation of rights are anything else.
Posted by Menlo Voter
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 6, 2014 at 5:59 pm
Menlo Voter is a registered user.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 6, 2014 at 5:59 pm
Menlo Voter is a registered user.
Great pinch!
Posted by Andrew Boone
a resident of another community
on Nov 6, 2014 at 10:16 pm
a resident of another community
on Nov 6, 2014 at 10:16 pm
Bummer. Marijuana should be legalized.
Posted by Klay
a resident of another community
on Nov 7, 2014 at 7:28 am
a resident of another community
on Nov 7, 2014 at 7:28 am
Yay!!! Let's load up the jails with pot entrepreneurs.
America. Home of the imprisoned.
Posted by Probation
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 7, 2014 at 1:48 pm
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 7, 2014 at 1:48 pm
@SteveC - on its face this is not enough for probable cause. A judge is not going to issue a warrant b/c a police officer smelled marijuana near a house. Smelling or even seeing a person smoking marijuana inside a house is also not an exception to establishing probably cause. See People v. Hua.
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