My question involves criminal law for the state of: Michigan
My friends had been drinking so I volunteered to be the designated driver because i don't drink and I didn't want them driving. I got pulled over for speeding and the police officer asked if we had been drinking. I told him that I was the designated driver to which he asked me if there were any open containers in the car. I told him no and allowed him to search the car. He found a half bottle of whiskey under the passenger seat that the rear seat passenger had hid there without my knowledge. He admitted to the officer that the bottle was his and he had hid it there without my knowledge. I still got ticketed for open alcohol container. What should I do?

