Why or why not ?
2006-11-03 23:22:25 · 13 answers · asked by smooches986 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
OK Ranger 473 1st if it is such a stupid question than you must be real hard up for 2 points to waste your time reading it. Obviously your avatar in a little uniform and a name like ranger473 you are a dreamer !! or where I am from a holster sniffer or badge bunny !! INVENTORY SEARCH after someone has been arrested and the vehicle taken to the pound
anything found in the vehicle during the search should they be allowed to use it or not?
2006-11-04 00:51:24 · update #1
Yes, As long as it was during the commission of a crime. in your example a vehicle, and you were driving that vehicle, stopped and arrested. If the police were to impound your vehicle, conduct an inventory of that vehicle to record everything you had in that vehicle as your property and found 20 pounds of dope in the trunk, they have every right to charge you for the dope.
Now if your vehicle was found abandoned on the side of the road and the police towed it, I dont believe that the police should pop open your trunk.
2006-11-04 01:59:34 · answer #1 · answered by JohnRingold 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An inventory search is for the safety of the officers and the people around where the vehicle will be parked as well as to account for all property in the vehicle at the the time the p.d. took control over it (such as dead bodies, drugs, guns, etc.) Inventory searches are the best thing in the world. Especially when you already have made a plain site on view drug arrest during a traffic stop. It would make much more sense to bring the vehicle to a lighted/heated police garage and take your time to check every nook and cranny of that vehicle.
2006-11-04 00:59:45 · answer #2 · answered by steveninc2001 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Courts have already ruled on this one, If the police have a policy of inventory everything from a car after an arrest to ensure latter on the person arrested can not claim things where stolen, then during that legal search they find something illegal since the inventory search is legal then they have a valid reason thus in course of their police duty they can use the evidence
Best bet try not and get arrested and on top try not to have illegal things in your car in general because in a car on a public highway you have a very low expectation of privacy
2006-11-04 01:10:07 · answer #3 · answered by goz1111 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
specific. The "Exclusionary Rule" which keeps the police from utilising evidence in courtroom basically comes into play while the seek replaced into unlawful. If the inventory replaced right into a criminal seek, then, decrease than the regulation, the products found have been in "undeniable view" of the officers in the process the seek and could be admitted in courtroom.
2016-11-27 02:33:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Badge Bunny, ( I had not heard that one before)
But yes an inventory search is a valid legal action and things found during it can be used.
2006-11-04 03:50:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Um, yes. If they have a legal warrant to search or they have appropriate probable cause then anything they find is admissible. I mean....what would be the point of the search anyway? "well we searched the individual, we found a bloody knife, a smoking handgun, a signed confession to a murder and a pound of crack wrapped in dime-bags, but I think we will only try to convict using the pocket lint."
It's logical and it is the law...if they have the right to search they can use it...illegal search...inadmissible
2006-11-03 23:36:31 · answer #6 · answered by silverback487 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If all the evidence found is gathered in accordance with the provisions of the search warrent, then YES, all the evidence is admissable in court.
2006-11-04 01:24:16 · answer #7 · answered by WC 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes...
Police work is not just about solving crimes, it is also about preventing crime.
The fundamental collection of evidence - the process itself - must be carefully administered and controlled.
If the police legally searched your crazy pyromaniacal next door neighbor's house and found a written plan to burn your house down next week, what would you want the police to do with that evidence?
Ignore it?
Supress it i.e. not tell you about it?
Use it?
At some point in time common sense must prevail.
2006-11-03 23:30:03 · answer #8 · answered by angelthe5th 4 · 5⤊ 2⤋
The OJ Simpson judge dropped over 400 items collected as "evidence" because no search warrant had been issued previously.
So, no. Cops can't come in and do as they please without a court order.
2006-11-04 00:06:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I like angelthe5th response, but as I see very little common sense on the site so you responses will most likely turn out like the first one, stupid.
2006-11-03 23:35:16 · answer #10 · answered by madjer21755 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋