Commonwealth v. Degray

This appeal presents the issue whether police officers may reasonably search the trunk of an automobile where there was an odor of burnt marijuana in the vehicle, where the driver of the automobile admitted that he and the vehicle’s other occupants had been smoking marijuana in the automobile, and where two marijuana cigarettes as well as marijuana remnants *123were found in the passenger compartment. The Commonwealth appeals from a Superior Court judge’s allowance of the defendant’s motion to suppress evidence seized from the trunk. We reverse.

1. Background.1 After an evidentiary hearing, the…