JOHN SERRA, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By (13 total)

• State v. Rabb, 920 So. 2d 1175 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006)
  …y warranted a belief that an offense had been committed” and provided the officers with probable cause to not only stop a vehicle, but to search the entire passenger compartment. State v. Betz, 815 So. 2d 627, 633 (Fla.2002); see also State v. T.P., 835 So. 2d 1277 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003) (court held that odor of marijuana justified officer’s detention and search of defendant and his car); State v. K.V., 821 So. 2d 1127 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002) (same). The detectives’ detection of the odor of marijuana in this case be…
• State v. Williams, 967 So. 2d 941 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007)
  …smell’ of [burning] marijuana.” Id. Based on Betz and Chambliss, the Fourth District has also held that the odor of burnt cannabis emanating from a stopped vehicle provides probable cause to search a person who is in the vehicle. See State v. T.P., 835 So. 2d 1277, 1278 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003); State v. K.V., 821 So. 2d 1127, 1128 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002). We distinguish the cases which hold that law enforcement officers do not have probable cause to search the person of an occupant of a vehicle based solely on a tra…
• Gonzalez v. State, 59 So. 3d 182 (Fla. 4th DCA 2011)
  …outside his house.1 See State v. Garcia, 374 So. 2d 601 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979) (holding that officers smelling “the odor of marijuana smoke” at the front door of a residence was one factor supporting a finding of probable cause). See also State v. T.P., 835 So. 2d 1277 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003) (holding that odor of marijuana justified officer’s detention and search of defendant and his car); State v. K.V., 821 So. 2d 1127 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002) (same); State v. Drysdale, 770 So. 2d 301 (Fla. 4th DCA 2000) (holding that od…

Authorities Cited

• State v. Craycraft, 817 So. 2d 864 (Fla. 1st DCA 2002)