So me and my friend go to play soccer and on our way we decide to meet up with somebody somewhere so that he could follow us to where the soccer practice is at. While we wait for him my idiot friend decides to get out into somebodys unlocked car and take their stuff. after finishing playing soccer he goes off with somebody else but left his things in my car.
i didnt want anything to do with his stolen things so i get rid of them and give them to somebody else so he can pick them up later.
Later on at night me and my girlfriend are fighting and he comes back to try and shut us up so he can get his stuff back. Somebody calls the cops saying we are being loud and we both get pulled over at different spots, and when they let us go i went back to see why they had arrested him and the guy that drove him to pick up his things. The cop said "you know these guys?" i said 'yeah' and with that they decided to search my car and i forgot to get rid of a $100 calculator that he had left in my car.
2007-04-12 09:51:43 · 11 answers · asked by jeff 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
You should talk to your attorney about this.
2007-04-12 09:57:20 · answer #1 · answered by www.lvtrafficticketguy.com 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF what you say is true, you might be able to get off. Talk to a lawyer, ASAP.
You're going to have trouble getting anyone to believe your story. At the very least, it will take your "idiot friend" to take full responsibility for the crime and to tell everyone that you had absolutely nothing to do with the theft or helping him in any way.
There's no law I know of, at least not in the US that says you must report a crime you witness.
Depending on the law in your state, aiding and abetting, being an accessory after the fact, and receiving stolen property requires that you intend to commit those crimes. If your "friend" left the calculator in your car, you didn't mean or intend to receive. Arguably, you didn't receive it because you didn't conciously accept it.
You have a problem with being an accessory after fact by giving the stolen items to someone so that the thief could pick them up. You knew they were stolen, and you knowling did something with them that would help the perp get away/keep the stolen goods. If they haven't charged you with that, consider yourself lucky.
You might also be able to get off on a technicality. The cops can't just search your car just because you know a couple of thieves. The 4th Amendment protects you from unreasonable searches and seizures, which is what this sounds like. This means cops can't search people randomly. They need probable cause, or at least a reasonable suspicion that you committed a crime - unless you're already on probation. If you're on probation, you waive your 4th Amendment rights which allows cops to search you just about any time, anywhere for any or no reason.
You might not be guilty of the charges, but you're still a punk for not doing anything to stop your idiot friend, or return the stolen goods.
2007-04-19 17:19:34 · answer #2 · answered by Lyndon C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're hoped. You allowed your " friend" to place stolen property in your car. It doesn't matter that you disposed of this property later. You are an accessory before and after the fact as well as a transporter of stolen property. Next time tell your " friends" to leave you our of their criminal activities. Hope you don't get too much time in jail.
2007-04-12 10:02:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I bet you would have made on heII of a tap dancer.
We have two problems in this country today. Most people won't accept the responsibility for their actions and no one is requiring that they do so.
Good luck, not that you will need it, with the liberal judiciary you will probably get probation and the calculator back.
2007-04-12 10:06:07 · answer #4 · answered by gimpalomg 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You watched him steal someone's property, and allowed him to put that property in your car. That's receiving stolen property. You didn't report the crime, and you actually helped in the commission of the theft by driving the guy. That makes you guilty of the crime.
Take your medicine, boy!
2007-04-12 10:02:42 · answer #5 · answered by charliecizarny 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yeah thats being an accessory mate. Also a transporter and you could get bagged. But you could ring them up on false pretenses for searching your car. Seek an attorney for the low-down. And maybe check out these links for a better understanding:
- http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/terms/accessory.html
- http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/
2007-04-20 05:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You and your friend are both stupid. I hope both of you get to spend some quality time in a cell. He stole and yet you enabled him to recover his stolen goods. Idiots.
ps It's called being an accesorary[sp] to the crime.
2007-04-19 17:34:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds fair
2007-04-12 09:59:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
sounds like receiving and concealing stolen property to me
2007-04-19 21:12:45 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're convicted I'm sure you deserve it, for that BS story if nothing else.
2007-04-12 09:59:53 · answer #10 · answered by gunplumber_462 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the lesson is you need to date a girl that knows how to stfu. All the pretty girls know how to stfu.
2007-04-12 09:59:09 · answer #11 · answered by Theodore Sebastian 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋