The Pennsylvania Superior Court has decided that a county judge’s ruling that the odor of marijuana does not amount to probable cause for police to search a vehicle was legally insufficient.

A three-judge panel consisting of Superior Court Judges Anne Lazarus, John Bender and Eugene Strassburger overturned a Lehigh County judge’s decision regarding defendant Timothy Barr II’s petition for habeas corpus and to suppress evidence obtained from a vehicle search that led to charges of illegal possession of a firearm stemming from a gun found in a jacket allegedly belonging to Barr.

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