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To bigT
and all others;
That is the legal version of a search.
a few things,
1) They are allowed to search "common areas" of the car. this is pretty much anywhere in a jeep. There is no locked trunk. They are allowed to do this for their safety. The reasoning behind it is to check for weapons. In a passanger car, the trunk is off limits w/o a warrant. sence the whole body of a jeep is open (even SUV's where the back is accessible from the cab) they have quite a bit of free reign.
2) Cops do what they want, most cops are good, but there are some bad ones that like to streach the law.
3) A Jeep with a soft top can get you out of a lot of things that can be found in your car. Im not advocating, the transportation of illegal materials, but you can argue in court that anything they find must have been stashed there by someone else. Your windows unzip and there is no way for you to controll access to the interior of your car. (Same philosiophy as the bed of a pick-up truck) Because the law states that possession of an item must include that the accused had knowledge that the item was in their possession.
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To bigT
and all others;
That is the legal version of a search.
a few things,
1) They are allowed to search "common areas" of the car. this is pretty much anywhere in a jeep. There is no locked trunk. They are allowed to do this for their safety. The reasoning behind it is to check for weapons. In a passanger car, the trunk is off limits w/o a warrant. sence the whole body of a jeep is open (even SUV's where the back is accessible from the cab) they have quite a bit of free reign.
2) Cops do what they want, most cops are good, but there are some bad ones that like to streach the law.
3) A Jeep with a soft top can get you out of a lot of things that can be found in your car. Im not advocating, the transportation of illegal materials, but you can argue in court that anything they find must have been stashed there by someone else. Your windows unzip and there is no way for you to controll access to the interior of your car. (Same philosiophy as the bed of a pick-up truck) Because the law states that possession of an item must include that the accused had knowledge that the item was in their possession.
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