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    Default Caught By The Narcs

    State: Connecticut

    I was walking down the street the other day when two police officers come out of a bush and ask me and my two friends to come over. They asked us where we were going and "Who we got it from", they started naming every drug dealer that I had ever met and asked us to put our hands behind our heads, we did so but kept questioning each other because we did not know if they had the grounds to search us. Now before I go on with my beautiful story I should summarize what we did before we walked down that horrid street. Me and my friends left our high school (yes we are minors) and walked a couple blocks to go to the store and got cigars (blunts), then we were going back to the park right next to our school when we saw two of our friends, we said hi to them and then went on our way, then we walked down the street the cops stopped us. The End. Now back to my other story, I was the one with the contraband on me, when the cop searched me he missed the bags and went on to search my other pockets, he found a pack of cigarettes and then stopped and told me that it was illegal for me to smoke, he also warned me that if he found the weed on me, he would arrest all of us, so I came through and told him that I did have some on me, he asked me to take it out and when I did he had me destroy it by trowing it on the ground and stomping it. He told us what charges we could have faced and asked us to move along. Now I'm not gonna say that I was not grateful for their mercy, but I still want to know if they had the right to search me. What should I do next time? Also is it true that it's illegal for me to smoke? Me and my friends were going to call our lawyers because we thought they had no probable cause to search us. They told us not to bother because lawyers don't understand the law on the street, one of them actually told me that by just shaking the hand of my friend on the street, they had the right to stop me and search me. Is this true?

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    Default Re: Caught By The Narcs

    You weren't either ticketed or charged with anything?

    How old are you?

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    Default Re: Caught By The Narcs

    Im 15 and no they just let me go.

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    The officers probably knew that they didn't have proper cause for their actions, but they didn't arrest or charge you so there's no evidence to suppress. You can try to convince a lawyer that your civil rights were violated, but odds are a jury isn't going to have much sympathy for a teenage pot smoker whose entire damages appear to be losing a bag of weed.

    You cannot legally possess tobacco products at age fifteen.

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    Quote Quoting aaron
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    The officers probably knew that they didn't have proper cause for their actions, but they didn't arrest or charge you so there's no evidence to suppress. You can try to convince a lawyer that your civil rights were violated, but odds are a jury isn't going to have much sympathy for a teenage pot smoker whose entire damages appear to be losing a bag of weed.

    You cannot legally possess tobacco products at age fifteen.
    I do not seek to convince a lawyer of anything and I'm only seeking advice as to what I could have done to protect myself against an illegal search and seizure. I do not like the way you seem to think of "Pot Smokers", I am a straight A student at my high school and I'm in the National Honor Society too. Smoking is my choice and it is because of people like you that me and my friends are labeled as "Junkies" and are harassed by the cops every time we step out into the street. I appreciate the advice but I find it insulting when you say a jury would have "little sympathy for a teenage pot smoker". I am not saying that marijuana is good for you but that doesn't give you or anybody else the grounds to label me, ever heard of tolerance buddy?

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    I didn't say a word about how I feel about pot smokers. I simply commented on how a jury is likely to perceive you. If you don't like that fact, well, tough. That's the way things are. Your display, by the way, is not convincing me of your professed maturity.

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