I copied my first post for you kinda long. I was asking about fourth amendment and chain of custody. I was told the fourth amendment may not apply because the cop said the bag looked lost and I don't know if how they handle the bag could bring in a question of chain of custody. Here it is:
Hey, we live in NC. My son is 21 and attends a community college. He is in a welding program there. His instructor told the student if they wanted they could leave their book bags in the shop on their desk for the weekend. He did. He had several of those tiny bags in his bag one which had about 4 seeds in it. The campus police went into this room and search the bags. Found this in my sons and wrote a warrant for his arrest. On Monday he had an appointment and would not attend till the afternoon. A friend text him about the police looking for him. He called the head of campus police since he was not close to the school. He was told there was a warrant for marijuana and paraphernalia. He went to the local magistrate and took care of it. He was also told by the officer he was banded from school. He had an appeal of that today. The officer said there was only his bag in the room and he thought it was lost so he had to look in it. He also said my son was prepared to start dealing. When asked he said no to there was no suspicion on him prior to this. That no person had told him my son was dealing. Now under the law 4th amendment considering this is a public school and we can prove the officer knew this bag was not abandoned can he open it then arrest him.
