My question involves criminal law for the state of: Michigan
i have drugs.
if i store them in a small safe, will it give me any protection from a warrant to search my home in the future?
how specific does the warrant have to be?
My question involves criminal law for the state of: Michigan
i have drugs.
if i store them in a small safe, will it give me any protection from a warrant to search my home in the future?
how specific does the warrant have to be?
A warrant for drugs generally gives police the ability to check ANY place where drugs could reasonably fit, and when the safe is found, it's easy for police to pick up the phone and ensure that the warrant covers the safe too. If you don't want to have problems related to possession of illegal susbstances, then don't have illegal substances. Simply putting them in a safe isn't going to get you out of a criminal charge.
They will ask you for the combination. If you decline to present it, it might be seized or drilled.
If the people writing the search warrant have ANY experience at all, or are operating on a template for drug search warrants, a safe or other similar item will definitely be addressed within the language of the search warrant. If you are counting on the inexperience or stupidity of investigators in a narcotic unit, you are playing Russian Roulette ... you don't assign rookies to those units, they tend to be experienced investigators who are well trained.
if police could not search safes for drugs, every drug user and drug dealer would use a safe and nobody would ever go to jail for illegal drugs