KS-court rules officers can use smell as justification to search a home

[heavenlyboy34]

"Because $#@! your rights, mundane. We know you haz drugs. Open the $#@!ing door." -Officer Friendly Heads up, @Anti Federalist

https://www.ksn.com/news/kansas/cour...KqvnKnIomnkXbI

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A divided Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that police can rely exclusively on their sense of smell to provide probable cause to do preliminary search of a home for drugs.The ruling came in a case where Lawrence police entered a man's apartment to search after saying they detected a strong smell of raw marijuana. Lawrence Hubbard appealed his conviction on misdemeanor drug charges, arguing that the Lawrence officers could not justify the search without a search warrant based only on their ability to smell.

The state argued that probable the security sweep the officers conducted before getting a search warrant was appropriate to ensure no one inside Hubbard's apartment destroyed possible evidence in the case.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the court ruled Friday on a 4-3 vote.

[Origanalist]

A virtually foolproof excuse to enter anytime, anywhere leaving you no legal recourse whatsoever.

[heavenlyboy34]

A virtually foolproof excuse to enter anytime, anywhere leaving you no legal recourse whatsoever.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Origanalist again.

Ya got that right, comrade. #policestate Betcha Boobus in KS and elsewhere will shrug this off as saaaaafety or some such nonsense, too. :P

[fedupinmo]

Ya got that right, comrade. #policestate Betcha Boobus in KS and elsewhere will shrug this off as saaaaafety or some such nonsense, too. :P

They jumped right on past "safety", now it's "government interest".