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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CN) — The Illinois Supreme Court issued a landmark state ruling on Thursday when it decided that law ...

Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s attorneys took his case before the Illinois Supreme Court Tuesday. Smollett was ...

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

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 Illinois Supreme Court.

Smollett claimed he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack near his Streeterville apartment in January 2019 after ...