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Bad search. If they have any kind of a lawyer, nothing will hapen.

Well, it varies by state, but regardless of the door being open it's virtually impossible that it's legal for you to enter someone else's habitation, find some pot and have it be admissable.

You could call the cops, and they could get a warrant, or go knock on the door and ask to come in, that'd be a diffrent story.

You can't just walk unnanounced into a tennants living area and rummage through their things. There was no cause for you to even examine the "roach".

You could evict them of course, based on it, but were it legal to do what you did you could have dropped a bag of heroin on the floor and it would be admisable.

The defense in court, of course, is: "My client had no knowledge of this substance before the premises were entered by the owners (likely illegally)." Move to dismiss, have a nice day.

Edited, Wed Jun 16 04:06:13 2004 by Smasharoo

Well anyway, talked to the cops and found out he's at his own residence and is coming back to grab his stuff. No harm no foul.

Forgot to add all they found were stems and seeds and essentially said they weren't going to bother with something that petty.

Edited, Wed Jun 16 04:07:27 2004 by PsychoJester

That and then there's that whole fourth amendment thing :)

Hope you guys got paid.

http://www.doj.state.wi.us/ss_manual/search.htm






Edited, Wed Jun 16 04:41:11 2004 by trickybeck

So you're implying that he'll be lynched?

Fixed That For you

Dunno why you hate SC. If you ignore the facts that the population is largely inbred and dumb as a box of rocks and racist as hell on top of that, it's not such a bad place. :)

What pisses me off is that they had the snes hooked up to the TV. Not in front of the children!

Yeah, doesn't matter at all. Never has. Your crime just goes from breaking and entering to tresspassing.

The only exemption to all of this would be if you walked by and there was a pile of dope "in plain sight" as opposed to searching the room and finding some. In that case, naturally you would have probably smoked it or sold it and we wouldn't be having this discussion on a message board :)

http://www.kscoplaw.com/outlines/ssoutline.htm#III.%20Fourth%20Amendment%20Analysis

"III. Fourth Amendment Analysis
A. Is it Governmental Conduct?
1. Fourth Amendment only limits activities of Government Employees

"The Fourth Amendment proscribes only governmental action; it is wholly inapplicable to a search or seizure by a private individual not acting as an agent of the government or with the participation or knowledge of any governmental official." Burdeau v. McDowell, 256 U.S. 465 (1921); State v. Miesbauer, 232 Kan. 291, 293, 654 P.2d 934 (1982). "

haha, you just won't admit when you're wrong.

I admit when I'm wrong all the time.

I happen not to be wrong here. Sliver, plank, eye, etc.