“I posit that anyone who agrees to a vehicle search in these circumstances because “I haven’t broken any laws” and “I’ve got nothing to hide” is no US citizen at all.
Tell Larry Law to get a warrant.
Tell Larry Law that you will wait for the K-9 patrol.”
Larry law will claim to have smelled something. You can’t prove he is lying, even though he is often wrong. Larry law will use a trick pony, a dog trained to signal on command. Larry Law will harass the crap out of you for refusing. Larry Law will invent any excuse to ignore the Constitution.
Larry Law once claimed that his dog “triggered” on my mother’s car.
Not even a cigarette had ever been smoked in the car, let alone any illegal substance entering it.
Twenty minutes of some JBT telling his dog “Dirty-DIrty” while it drags its doggy parts all over the seats of the car.
Not impressed with the “officers” involved.
The best part? This was at one of the “fruit stops” on the Cali-Az border, 150 miles N of the Mexican border.
Which is why I recommend looking up at the highway billboard and tell Larry: “I’m calling my lawyer.”
It’s funny but in most major metropolitan areas, the local lawyers have someone on-call to deal with these issues.
My intelligent brother, refusing to a search, called a local lawyer at 1AM (from a billboard!) while waiting for the dogs. The legal-beagle sent an independent “witness” who arrived before the K9 unit. Impressive.
He was pulled-over for a burned-out license plate lamp. Larry asked to search, my brother asked, “Under what probable cause?” Larry replied, “Oh, you are one of those!”
Overall, Larry let my brother continue on his way. My brother tipped the witness $20 and paid the lawyer invoice of $50 by credit card at the location.