Re: Just Say NO
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Just say NO, I don't want to talk to you, NO you cannot look at my cell phone. NO, I don't want you to look in my trunk. NO, you cannot come in my house. NO, I don't want to talk to you.
You see these guys on cops all the time, giving consent to search their vehicles, like complete dumb asses. The cops can be pretty darn tricky in getting the consent sometimes. It always turns out [censored] for them. I must admit it's funny to watch.
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Don't you realise that if you start saying "NO" "No" "NO" you can't look in there that it actually gives the cops reasonable grounds for suspicion. This means that they can then look in your boot wether you like it or not.
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Completely wrong and totally ignorant! At least in the United States. Maybe it's different in Britain but I doubt it.
Refusal to consent to a search cannot be used as reasonable suspicion. This is iron clad law. Now, it unfortunately doesn't take much to come up with reasonable suspicion... but it can't simply be a refusal to consent.
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