Key to the particulars is the fact that the driver CONSENTED to a search of his vehicle. Never consent to a search, even if you think you have nothing to hide.
Thank you for some perspective!
Next time it won't be a search with consent and this case will be used a precedent.
It is not good. It's very bad!
look at the ramifications.
GW gave us the DHS, Obama now uses it to rule over us.
Look to the greater extent and stop looking at the small window.
You all fail to look at it from the standpoint that the police do not need reasonable cause anymore.
Lets say they outlaw all plastic bags in the year 2025, OK, Just for this purpose.
All they have to do is tell the judge, I thought a crime had been committed. When I went into their home I shot the dog because the homeowner was trying to hide his stash of plastic shopping bags which the EPA outlawed last year.
So the crime was committed just not the one we thought. The police do not need proof you committed a crime to enter your house, but once inside, none of us know if we have committed a crime with more than 40,000 new laws being passed every year just in the states alone.
I saw a man get shot and ended up paralyzed by an itchy finger police officer.
I am propolice, but the original stop was for a seat belt violation. The man reached into hi car to get his billfold that was on the seat.
reasonable mistake by the cop? Yes, especially in today’s anti American Anti Cop society, but come on. It started over a seat belt violation.
A FRIGGIN SEAT BELT VIOLATION and a man is now wheelchair bound for life.
Do you know what law you will be breaking tomorrow? Do you want the police to have cart blanch to break into your house over an alleged crime just to shoot you over breaking some EPA regulation law?
Someone said it above, “The Camel’s Nose Under The Tent”
Well, it’s now in a little farther past his ears
And just how often is it that a person who refuses consent is allowed to leave without being searched.
"OK,sir...you've refused consent.But we don't need your consent to have our drug sniffing dog,which is on the way as I speak,take a few laps around your car".Then,of course,the dog will "hit" on the car (even if there are no drugs) and...well.you know the rest.