Law enforcement officers in Illinois cannot rely on the smell of burnt cannabis alone to justify searching a vehicle without ...

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 Thursday.

An odor of burnt marijuana doesn’t justify a search of a car without a warrant in Illinois. That’s the ruling Thursday from ...

The smell of burnt marijuana is no longer grounds to search a vehicle, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The ruling ...

Illinois Supreme Court rules that the smell of cannabis alone cannot justify warrantless vehicle searches, reinforcing ...

Reversing a previous ruling from before the legalization of marijuana, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the ...

The arresting officer described I80 as a drug corridor and called Des Moines and Chicago known "hubs of criminal activity." ...

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 ...

Simply smelling burnt cannabis does not give a police officer the right to conduct a warrantless search of an automobile, the ...

Police will no longer be able to use the smell of marijuana to justify searching a vehicle without a warrant, the Illinois ...

(AP Photo/Richard Vogel) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CN) — The Illinois Supreme Court issued a landmark state ruling on Thursday when ...

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled 6-0 that without other suspicious circumstances, such as a driver failing to stop for some ...