PTOMY
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA
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Probable cause to search a vehicle may be established through a totality-of-the-circumstances approach, including the odor of burnt marijuana emanating from the vehicle.
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
STATE OF FLORIDA
No. 1D2025-1029
LEJWOND LAMONT PTOMY, Appellant,
V.
STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.
On appeal from the Circuit Court for Escambia County. John F. Simon, Jr., Judge.
August 19, 2026
PER CURIAM.
AFFIRMED. See Hatcher v. State, 342 So. 3d 807, 810 (Fla. 1st DCA 2022) (determining whether probable cause exists to search a vehicle by utilizing a “totality-of-the-circumstances approach"); Aldama v. State, 394 So. 3d 148, 151 (Fla. 3d DCA 2024) (finding probable cause to search where officers smelled marijuana in the vehicle and defendant's answers dispelled a lawful explanation for the scent); Hoehaver v. State, 389 So. 3d 766, 768 (Fla. 5th DCA 2024) (concluding that the odor of burnt marijuana emanating from inside a vehicle supplied probable cause to search).
OSTERHAUS, C.J., and LEWIS and WINOKUR, JJ., concur.
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