How To Protect Your Rights When Police Search Your Car
How do police justify searching your car at a DUI stop? Almost always the odor of marijuana, explains Fort Lauderdale DUI attorney Regina Tsombanakis—it's the one drug they can smell. Officers may pull you over on a pretext like dark window tint, then claim they smell marijuana as probable cause. Whatever they find, even other drugs, leads to arrest.
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Answered by Regina Tsombanakis · Fort Lauderdale, FL
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— how the odor of marijuana becomes the excuse to search your car
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How do police justify searching your car at a DUI stop?
Almost always the odor of marijuana—it's the one drug they can smell, so officers may pull you over on a pretext like dark window tint, then claim they smell marijuana as probable cause, and whatever they find leads to arrest.
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