Opinion ID: 1182146
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Heading: Plain Smell

Text: (5) The officer testified air rushed out of the apartment bearing the odor of burning marijuana when defendant opened the door wider to admit the officer. Again, had the People prevailed below, the officer's testimony would provide substantial evidence to support a finding the officer had probable cause to enter the apartment to arrest defendant. (See Mann v. Superior Court (1970) 3 Cal.3d 1, 7 [88 Cal. Rptr. 380, 472 P.2d 468].) However, by granting the motion to suppress, the trial court impliedly found the officer's testimony was not credible. (Evid. Code, § 402, subd. (c); People v. West, supra, 3 Cal.3d 595, 602.) Since the officer's search failed to reveal burning or smoldering marijuana, smoking equipment, or other evidence of recent marijuana usage, the trial court was not compelled to accept the officer's testimony. The superior court's order of suppression being supported by substantial evidence, the alternative writ of mandate is discharged and the peremptory writ denied.