Smoking pot while answering one’s front door, then tossing the evidence when seeing it’s the police, creates probable cause to search under the plain-view and exigent-circumstances doctrines, the New Jersey Supreme Court says.
The justices reversed an Appellate Division ruling that suppressed drug evidence in the warrantless search in State v. Walker, A-49-11.
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