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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/us/17scotus.html?_r=1

Search Allowed if Police Hear Evidence Being Destroyed
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: May 16, 2011

WASHINGTON — The police do not need a warrant to enter a home if they smell burning marijuana, knock loudly, announce themselves and hear what they think is the sound of evidence being destroyed, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday in an 8-to-1 decision.

The issue as framed by the majority was a narrow one. It assumed there was good reason to think evidence was being destroyed, and asked only whether the conduct of the police had impermissibly caused the destruction

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

why should seeing marijuana be probable cause for entry but not smelling it?

Wonder how this will hold up in decriminalized states.

Won't matter, as its still federally proscribed.

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Holy shitsnacks!