SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Law enforcement officers in Illinois cannot rely on the smell of burnt cannabis alone to justify searching a vehicle without a warrant, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled on ...

Reversing a previous ruling from before the legalization of marijuana, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the smell of burnt cannabis alone is not enough to justify a warrantless ...

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday the smell of burnt cannabis alone is insufficient grounds for police officers to search a vehicle. The ruling stems from a 2020 traffic stop in Henry ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) – The Illinois Supreme court ruled that the odor of raw cannabis alone gives law enforcement officers probable cause to search someone’s vehicle. The ruling comes ...

Smell of burnt cannabis not cause for warrantless vehicle search, Illinois high court rules Supreme court justices unanimous in case stemming from 2020 traffic stop in Henry County ...

The Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled in September, with White abstaining, that the smell of burnt cannabis does not indicate a crime has been committed and does not give police probable ...

Sept. 19 (UPI) --The smell of burnt marijuana is no longer grounds to search a vehicle, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday.The ruling stems from a traffic stop in 2020 during which officers ...

The Supreme Court added that the police officer in Molina’s case did not find any innocent explanations for the smell in the vehicle. However, the court upheld their precedent that “‘the odor of burnt ...

In a 6-0 ruling, the court found that cannabis laws in Illinois had evolved to the point that just catching a whiff of burnt weed is no longer enough probable cause for police to search a vehicle.

In another case hot off the legal presses, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled by a 4-2 majority that the smell of raw cannabis can give rise to a reasonable suspicion of its illegal transportation ...

The Kansas Supreme Court ruled in 2014, for example, that the smell of alcohol alone did not justify a vehicle search. Last year, the Minnesota Supreme Court also barred police from searching vehicles ...

The smell of raw cannabis is grounds for police to search a vehicle, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The decision runs counter to the court’s previous ruling that the smell of burnt ...