03-13-2018, 04:45 PM
Damn Charon. That's horrible.
One more thing to add, C0ps only have the amount of time to retain you in civil violation circumstances to "complete the stop." In other words, if they pull you over for having a broken tail light, they can only retain you long enough to write the violation. They cannot artificially extend the stop to get a search @nimal brought to the stop. The @animal must arrive in the reasonable time it takes to handle the original infraction. If they hold you longer and you can prove it (not hard), that will usually be fruit of the poisonous tree and not admissible as evidence against you. But it's amazing how many times the "c0ntraband" is "visible" to a PO when you are pulled over, thus giving probable cause. Also, they are only allowed to search through items that may contain that c0ntraband. In other words, if they see a huge item, and then a small container of makeup in the trunk that could not possibly contain what they were looking for, they cannot search that container and find "oh, look at this new thing!."
One more thing to add, C0ps only have the amount of time to retain you in civil violation circumstances to "complete the stop." In other words, if they pull you over for having a broken tail light, they can only retain you long enough to write the violation. They cannot artificially extend the stop to get a search @nimal brought to the stop. The @animal must arrive in the reasonable time it takes to handle the original infraction. If they hold you longer and you can prove it (not hard), that will usually be fruit of the poisonous tree and not admissible as evidence against you. But it's amazing how many times the "c0ntraband" is "visible" to a PO when you are pulled over, thus giving probable cause. Also, they are only allowed to search through items that may contain that c0ntraband. In other words, if they see a huge item, and then a small container of makeup in the trunk that could not possibly contain what they were looking for, they cannot search that container and find "oh, look at this new thing!."