Can a cop do this?...?

lpdhcdh

So your 'family friend' is an illegal immigrant ("he does not papers") he drives without a valid license and transports drugs across the state "to sell them". WTF is the problem with him getting arrested?

In this situation most cops I know (without even knowing about the drugs) would be impounding your friend's car. During the inventory search (for which we don't need a warrant) we would find his stash.

For him to be jailed for 8 years, this wasn't a little weed, I would guess at a couple K's. Coke or Heroin?

Cop should have got a commendation. As for your worthless "friend", don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Expect him to come out of prison "changed". Very, very "changed".....

BleedScarlet&Gray

Yes, they can search with proper cause.

Mister J

If he had probable cause or a reasonable suspicion, then he can search the car. If the search was flawed, the case would be dismissed. But, this issue was (hopefully) probably resolved at trial. The rest is history.

Your family friend is "toast" on this one. Sorry.

In spite of what LOOP said about it: this was law way before the Patriot Act.

SWATorNOT

There are a lot of reasons that a Police Officer can legally search a vehicle. Too many to list here. If you really want to know how, do some legal research. The reasons listed here under your question are exactly why I answer this way. Geez, there are some insane people out there. Trust me, the legal reasons to search have nothing to do with the Patriot Act, a nazi regime, or corrupt cops.
And as one relativly intellegent person said, if there were something illegal about the search, it would have come up at trial.

Myron

Cops can indeed conduct warrant-less searches. In fact, most searches are done without a warrant: the searches are done based on probable cause that a person has - or is - committing a crime.

Quickly stuffing something in your pocket when you see a cop gives that cop grounds to search your pocket right there, on the spot. From the cop's point of view, it could be a gun, and it is an officer safety issue.

Without knowing the facts, I can only guess that the cop saw something amiss and acted upon it. That certainly will be the way the cop will explain himself. It's impossible to know if the cop violated your friend's rights without know the whole story.

Rych

Yup of course they can.. Why would you want to do something against the cop, your friend had drugs and thats illegal and he should not be selling. Now he can deal with the consequences.

Molly Annice

yes they can

N.J.S.

yes they can

vote NO for hilary cllinton

oh yes my fionce is a cop and they can do that!!!

Bill

Here's the way it works:

1. If there is probable cause to search, he can search.
2. If there isn't probable cause to search, he can ask for permission to search...which is usually (stupidly) granted.

It's so tragic that a guest of our country violated federal and state laws (transporting narcotics) and will be deported. Cry me a river.

Why are you trying to shaft the cop? His job is to prevent crime, and it looks like he did so.

sundsqk321@sbcglobal.net

Yes, he was stopped for speeding. The officer didn't need a warrant. Had he NOT been breaking any violations, the officer would have needed a warant.

-RKO-

Unfortunately, police have what I believe to be excessive power in the United States. As the inefficient, corrupt, unmanageable, inefficient Department of Homeland Security takes on more power, our nation will quickly be turned into a police state similar to that of Nazi Germany where neighbors could 'snitch' on neighbors, people could be incarcerated without just cause, and citizens could be arrested on trumped-up, bogus charges - all in the name of "homeland security". As Adolph Hitler once said: "How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think." -RKO- 11/22/07

mnwomen

Yes he can search if the friend agrees to it. If he had not argreed they would bring in a dog to get reasonable cause. He wasnt using just going to transport them across state lines to sell. He has no papers so he is illegal. I doubt there is any way to reduce his sentence or stop his deportation. This is exactly why laws for immigration need to be enforced.

ghost

Yep, probable cause. I used to have my car searched every night when I was younger, and used to drive around with friends at 2:00 am. They never found anything, but I never had drugs on me. It was amusing though.

forsonclan03@yahoo.com

yes the police in todays world can do anything they want(dam near)the justice is a money making machineQ!Q!.its like the "legal maffia" the best rackeeters wear suits.(wait till you get stopped and drugs planted on you!) it happens here in oklahoma im living proof!(no.b.s.) do u believe that the drug users supply even 1 city in the u.s.! huh!.............your constitution went away!(roe.v.wade.....break the rule you better be a mason or have money!bye!@

Loop

Thanks to the Patriot Act a cop con do ANYTHING he wants so long as he files the report stating he thought you were a risk to national security,
Wave bye bye to the Bill of Rights Kids.

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