the car was liscenced&inshured ,so was i.cop walks up,says"what are you doing with the keg?' i look back seeing it for the first time,and say"it's scrap metal." i give him the required papers,he takes them ,everything checks out.he comes back andtells me to step out of the vehicle, walks me back, tells me ,hands behind your head youre under arrest, for what i say, the beer kegsays he,isay first of all its scrap metal second its not mine. his reply was you told me it was a beer keg & that it belonged to both of you. we were arrested under a law :unlawful sale or possession of beer ;unlawful to posess beer in container larger than 2 liters. there was no beer in the keg. after the arrest we were searched we both had small amount of drugs . did he have probable cause to arrest us? will this charge stick?
2006-08-30
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