Re: Ozzy87 busted for speeding
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how [censored] dumb do you have to be to consent to the cops request to search your car?
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Depends on how much drugs you've got in the car and how well they're hidden.
Whoever it was that said "lol....warrant plz..." should familiarize himself with the automobile exception to the warrant requirement. The cops don't need a warrant to search your car and a refusal to consent to a search usually isn't gonna get you out of it. All they need is reasonable suspicion to believe that contraband is present in the vehicle.
What do you guys think happens when a cop asks if he can search your vehicle and you say no? Do you think he's just gonna say "well, ok then, see ya later, drive safe!!"
Doesn't work that way. If you refuse consent to search, the fact that you refused consent to search is basically sufficient in and of itself to support reasonable suspicion to search (reasonable suspicion is not a very high standard, legally) and I guarantee you that the vast majority of the time they're gonna put more effort into the search if you refuse than if you just consent right off the bat.
Be aware that refusing an officer's request to search your vehicle has universally been held sufficient to justify calling the drug dog at the very least. If you get pulled over and the officer thinks there may be drugs and asks you if he can search and you say no - the K9 is for sure coming. If you've got a lot of hard drugs hidden in a great hiding spot (a difficult to discover secret compartment) you're probably better off consenting to the search because the K9s nose is normally gonna be better than the random state trooper's ability to discover your hiding spot - especially if you consented and you haven't really given him any reason to believe you're doing anything wrong. If you've just got a little bit of pot that you quickly threw under your seat when you saw the copper's lights flash in your rearview mirror, you're probably better off refusing and taking your chances that the drug dog won't pick up the scent.
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