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Random Searching By Government	Penny	07/22/05
If the police stop you, say on New Year's Eve, checking for drunk drivers at a spot where everybody is being pulled over randomly (i.e., without probable cause), and find pot on your car seat, can you be arrested? You're not drunk. I assume you can, but what about the protection of the 4th Amendment since there was no probable cause to begin with? Just a random search.
Clarification/Follow-up by Jim.McGinness on 07/22/05 9:29 pm: We're looking for a balance between giving law-enforcement authorities the tools they need to protect us from criminal activity and protecting the citizens from the tyranny of arbitrary exercise of power by those same authorities. http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20030107_fletcher.html

Summary of Answers Received	Answered On	Answered By	Average Rating
1. If you have pot, you should go to jail. It's illegal, im...	07/22/05	goody2shoos
2. If the pot is "in plain sight", there is not much supp...	07/22/05	Jim.McGinness
3. they are not only looking for drunks but whatever impairs yo...	07/22/05	ladybugca
4. As long as the pot is in plain sight and the stop is a legal...	07/23/05	captainoutrageous
5. the 4th amendment guards against "unresonable searches...	07/23/05	tomder55
6. This is still a state by state issue, the laws on probable ...	07/24/05	Bishop_Chuck
7. Well, if you can do the crime, then you can do the time....	03/18/06	katiy

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