If you don't give consent to search to a cop, you will most likely be arrested and harassed, true. But if without your consent they search your car and find something not "in plain view", any good defense attorney will beat that charge easily. In Claude's case, from what I've seen, he admitted to the cop that he had stuff in the car. That makes me believe that the cop was trying the "You mean to say if I get that dog over here, he isn't gonna smell anything? Now if you help me, son, it'll go better for you" bit. Being involved in the legal community in Texas I am surrounded by Attorney's - Public defenders, Attorney Generals, US Attorneys, JAGS. They all say the same thing: never let them search where they have no right to. Remember, the Constitution isn't the limit of the rights that you have as a citizen. It is designed to limit what the Government can do. America's founding fathers would be rolling in their graves if they could see what America has become. Liberty meant everything to them. Now, most people are all too happy to surrender their rights; and especially the rights of other people, for cheap promises that the Government never fulfills. And yes, this is a sore issue for me :hihi: Unless it's Auburn people. Put them in concentration camps for all I care. :yelwink2:
And why are federal taxes handed out based on conforming with that regulation? It might have something to do with livers being underdeveloped before 21. I've never heard that before, but if true I'm glad to know.
If the weed was in plain view they can search your vehicle. They have cause for the search at that point and you can't stop them. Now if everything was hidden away and nothing obvious was standing out to the police officer, and he asked if he could search you vehicle, I believe you could refuse. I'm not going to justify his actions with "a lot of people do it" and crap like that. It is illegal and that's that. He just a freaking moron and a criminal with intent to distribute and he was stupid enough to give reason to get pulled over. Hopefully he gets what he deserves, get prison time and drops off the draft board. I don't want chumps like him representing LSU or Louisiana. Give me guys like Marcus Spears, Shaq, Kevin Faulk, Warrick Dunn(FSU), etc. Of course these guys are probably smoking pot too.:lol:
One question: please answer honestly: Do you drink alcohol? If so, do you think alcohol prohibition was a good thing? Did any good come out of it? Didn't it create the conditions that allowed people like Al Capone to get rich and cause crime to run rampant? If marijuana is illegal, then I feel like we should also ban alcohol again and see how people like having THEIR drug of choice criminalized. What a huge double-standard we have in this country. A substance that has been shown to be way more addictive and dangerous is legal, whereas a plant that has never been linked to any direct causes of death, ever, is not. The "illegal and that's that" argument is silly. Sodomy is illegal, but do you support rounding up gay men or people who get blowjobs or have anal sex with their girlfriends or wives and put them in jail as well? Because you know what? That activity is "illegal and that's that". It used to be illegal for Blacks to sit in the front of the bus. Back then would you have supported the prosecution of Rosa Parks because what she did was "illegal and that's that"? How about these laws? Would you support prison for people who break these, because it would be "illegal and that's that"? And yes, these are or used to be actual laws on the books... Silly Laws: - Alabama: 1. It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle. - Alaska: 1. It is illegal to push a live moose out of a moving airplane. - California: 1. Community leaders passed an ordinance that makes it illegal for anyone to try and stop a child from playfully jumping over puddles of water. - Connecticut: 1. You can be stopped by the police for biking over 65 miles per hour. 2. You are not allowed to walk across a street on your hands. - Florida: 1. Women may be fined for falling asleep under a hair dryer, as can the salon owner. 2. A special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing. 3. If an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle. 4. It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit. 5. Men may not be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown. 6. Any form of sexual contact other than missionary position is a misdomeanor. (This is still a law. There have been several cases of people being brought up on these charges in the past 5 years alone. If the police enter a home with a warrent for some other crime and catch the 'culprits' in action, they can, and are, brought up on those charges.) - Illinois: 1. It is illegal for anyone to give lighted cigars to dogs, cats, and other domesticated animal kept as pets. - Indiana: 1. Bathing is prohibited during the winter. 2. Citizens are not allowed to attend a movie house or theater nor ride in a public streetcar within at least four hours after eating garlic. - Iowa: 1. Kisses may last for as much as, but no more than, five minutes. - Kentucky: 1. By law, anyone who has been drinking is "sober" until he or she "cannot hold onto the ground." 2. It is illegal to transport an ice cream cone in your pocket. - Louisiana: 1. It is illegal to rob a bank and then shoot at the bank teller with a water pistol. 2. Biting someone with your natural teeth is "simple assault," while biting someone with your false teeth is "aggravated assault." - Massachusetts: 1. Mourners at a wake may not eat more than three sandwiches. 2. Snoring is prohibited unless all bedroom windows are closed and securely locked. 3. An old ordinance declares goatees illegal unless you first pay a special license fee for the privilege of wearing one in public. 4. Taxi drivers are prohibited from making love in the front seat of their taxi during their shifts. - Nebraska: 1. A parent can be arrested if his child cannot hold back a burp during a church service. - New Mexico: 1. Females are strictly forbidden to appear unshaven in public. - New York: 1. A fine of $25 can be levied for flirting. This old law specifically prohibits men from turning around on any city street and looking "at a woman in that way." A second conviction for a crime of this magnitude calls for the violating male to be forced to wear a "pair of horse-blinders" wherever and whenever he goes outside for a stroll. - North Dakota: 1. Beer & pretzels can't be served at the same time in any bar or restaurant. - Ohio: 1. Women are prohibited from wearing patent leather shoes in public. - Oklahoma: 1. Violators can be fined, arrested or jailed for making ugly faces at a dog. 2. Females are forbidden from doing their own hair without being licensed by the state. 3. Dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate in groups of three or more on private property. - Pennsylvania: 1. A special cleaning ordinance bans housewives from hiding dirt and dust under a rug in a dwelling. 2. No man may purchase alcohol without written consent from his wife. - Tennessee: 1. It is illegal to lasso a catfish in Tennessee!! (Julie.Miller) - Texas: 1. A city ordinance states that a person cannot go barefoot without first obtaining a special five-dollar permit. 2. It is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing. - Vermont: 1. Lawmakers made it obligatory for everybody to take at least one bath each week -- on Saturday night. - Washington: 1. All lollipops are banned. 2. A law to reduce crime states: "It is mandatory for a motorist with criminal intentions to stop at the city limits and telephone the chief of police as he is entering the town. 3. In King County, in Seattle Washington, it is illegal to sit on a man's lap on a metro bus, unless you are married. 4. Vancouver, WA has a city law that requires all motor vehicles to carry anchors... as an emergency brake. (Ted Timmons) - West Virginia: 1. No children may attend school with their breath smelling of "wild onions."
If I'm not mistaken, once Wroten admitted to having marijuana, that paves the way for them to legally search his car, with or without his permission. He screwed up by telling them he had some weed on him.
