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    Default Re: Unfair Search and Charges

    Quote Quoting cdwjava
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    I do hope you take this as a life lesson and modify your circle of friends away from druggies and drinkers before you end up on a path to nowhere.
    Well excuse me. I am on a path of a career already, i am going somewhere, and i already have. I had a profession at the age of 16, i just was with the wrong people at the wrong time.

    It is constructive possession technically, as i was told by someone of criminal knowledge. It was in my car, and by where i as the driver sit. So that is why i had the charges given to me when no one claimed it was theirs. I actually did not know where it was stashed until the cops approached and the kid quickly told me where it was before the cop stepped up to the vehicle. There was no time to move it.

    I shouldn't be charged as an adult seeing as i turned 17 a month and 1/2 ago, as i was told by the same person with the criminal knowledge. These people were not my regular group of friends, and i was asked if i could do a favor. And i wasnt busy so i said yes. Im not the one who has a previous record of selling drugs and have cops know me by name. It seems outrageous to not think that the kid didnt speak up to keep him self out of trouble cause he knew they couldnt prove it was his.

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    Well excuse me. I am on a path of a career already, i am going somewhere, and i already have. I had a profession at the age of 16, i just was with the wrong people at the wrong time.
    I am glad you are on a "career" at the age of 16. Understand that a "profession" and a "career" are two different things, so hopefully whatever it is will carry you well into maturity.

    However, no matter what this profession and/or career might be, to be successful you will have to couple a work ethic with good, common sense choices. Being a minor and transporting a friend for a last binge before rehab is not such a choice. Allowing friends or acquaintances to stash dope is likewise a poor choice. You tried to downplay this by saying here that you did no know where he stashed it. But, in your previous post you wrote: "The kid who bought the weed asked if he could put it in the car incase the cops did come. He put it in a compartment on the drivers side so it wasnt visible." This sentence implies prior knowledge and indicates an unwise choice which you now, hopefully, understand. Whether you misstated yourself in one post or the other is largely irrelevant as in either instance a case for possession can be made against you unless you can convince a jury that your friend stashed it on your side of the car without your knowledge prior to the cops approaching.

    I shouldn't be charged as an adult seeing as i turned 17 a month and 1/2 ago, as i was told by the same person with the criminal knowledge.
    I am not familiar with MD state laws on charging a minor as an adult, but if you are 17 and the law allows for a 17 year old as an adult, then there you go.

    These people were not my regular group of friends, and i was asked if i could do a favor. And i wasnt busy so i said yes.
    As you grow and mature you will hopefully come to understand that merely being available does not mean you have to say "yes" without considering other consequences including whether or not the act in question is wise. Don't worry, yours is a problem common with many teenagers including my own. As you get older and hopefully wiser, you should develop a keener sense.

    Im not the one who has a previous record of selling drugs and have cops know me by name. It seems outrageous to not think that the kid didnt speak up to keep him self out of trouble cause he knew they couldnt prove it was his.
    All because he did not speak up does NOT mean that you have to suck it up and take the hit yourself. You are certainly free to pin it on him.

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    Let's not forget that at sometime in the recent past, the drug fairy popped into her car and left presents.

    This WASN'T an isolated incident. This was a number of encounters where, apparently, the car was used to obtain and transport illegal substances.

    Then this same car was coincidentally used to take someone to rehab... and everyone thought that a person so alcoholic that it was endangering his/her life to the point where rehab was necessary should finish with a bender in the passengers seat.

    Wow, what are the chances of that?

    What are the chances that the rehab won't take? The patient seems to have a lack of commitment.

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    This WASN'T an isolated incident. This was a number of encounters where, apparently, the car was used to obtain and transport illegal substances.
    I did not transport his weed. We were never moving in the actual vehicle. I was not transporting anything. I cant prove that i do not buy weed, and that i didnt buy the weed found in my car, but im not going to deny that i have smoked weed in my car before. What kid doesnt. We try to have fun, its not the smartest and safest way to, but that's what most teens do. Its what we have easy access to, and thats the drug problem these days; accessibility.

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    I am glad you are on a "career" at the age of 16. Understand that a "profession" and a "career" are two different things, so hopefully whatever it is will carry you well into maturity.
    A professional ballet dancer in a company is very well a career and a profession. I make a salary just like anyone else does. I had previous training at a special school for dance, all dancers have special knowledge of their own specific style, and like i said i have an annual salary. And thank you for kindly trying to say that i'm immature... I might be 17 but i can handle my self and my decisions. This is one big mistake, i know this for sure, but i do not have a crystal ball. I cannot tell when something bad is going to happen. Yes i could have said no to giving them a ride, but im a nice friendly person. I did not know we were going to be headed to rehab for this man until i got there. And when i saw them drinking i said that they couldnt drink in my car, so that is why we stayed where we were until they finished.

    I know that i can pin it on the man who didnt speak up, thats pretty much what ive been trying to say but then people like you think im trying to sneak my way out of the situation, which i am not trying to do. I want to get out of this situation the right way, and just say what happend. But whether i had previous knowledge of where the weed was or not, it was in my car. It might have been a bad idea to put it in the vehicle, but who am i to know that a cop is going to search my car. I was fine when the officer approached because i myself wasnt doing anything wrong. But i was apart of the act, and it was my car. Do not think i dont know that. I just drove my self into a situation that had already been in the making when i got there. There is no way to prove that and i understand that. I'm SOL i know. I have to take what ever im given.

    Might i also add, not trying to be rude, cdwjava please try not to act like your superior to the people asking for advice. Yes, you are not the one asking for advice on a legal help website because you didnt break the law, but you are not necessarily the better person. When people ask a question on here, they want help. Not to be criticized and told how bad their decision making is.

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