| Sticky Marijuana Situation, and alc kinda, advice??
INDIANA------------
I, 3 guys, and 2 girls I was with were walking down Fee Lane at I.U. on October 25, 2009 around 11:30 P.M. Eastern time. Two of the kids I was with I had barely knew and there was a kid from Iowa that started smoking a bowl on the side of the street, two policemen saw and ran up on our group, which I had distanced from. They then stopped us and tried to ask the kid from Iowa where the pipe they saw him smoking was. He didn’t reply to them, I then began to walk off as they questioned him and they told us all to stay there. I asked the officer if I was being detained and he replied to me by saying, “Sit down this is an investigation you can go pending the results”. Yeah, and this is an illegal search because they had no reasonable intent to hold ME, maybe the kid from Iowa, but not ME. Then as I sat down they started asking us questions and the kid from Iowa didn’t say anything. They went down the row and asked us all where the pipe they saw him smoking was. I just told them that I didn’t know. The cops then asked me what was in my coat pocket I told them it was earmuffs, which were in my coat pocket. They then began to breathalyzer us all and everyone blew something but me, I blew .000. They asked me what they drink of the night was after I had took the breathalyzer and blew .000's, I didn't reply at first, they then started listing them and I just said vodka. No one gave out any information to the cops except this one girl I was with who told them that the pipe was mine. They then began to search us all for weapons by padding us down. They searched my pockets and asked what was in my coat pocket. I told them it was a rod for fixing cars. Then without telling me the officer unzipped my coat pocket and pulled out the pipe and 10 grams of marijuana. I told him this was an illegal search and he told me that he thought what was in my pocket was a weapon. They then arrested me and put me in hand cuffs. They then continued to search me and found a red bag that I had on my back under my coat. They asked me what was in the red bag and I told them nothing. They then sat me down and gave me two options, I could either let them open the red bag and they would be more lenient towards me, or they could get a warrant and open it and be stricter towards me. So I told them to get the warrant and sat there for a bit. They then stood me up and as I was standing they began opening my red bag and going through its contents, which were a couple lighters, eye drops, scale, and sunglasses, without a warrant. They then put me in the car and took me to jail where eventually they used the breathalyzer on me again, which I had blown .004 this time. All in all I was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of paraphernalia, and illegal consumption of an alcoholic beverage, which they claim I “Did knowingly consume an alcoholic beverage, said defendant being a minor.” This I’m pretty sure which means I told them I had been drinking which I CLEARLY did not. So what do you think would honestly happen if I took this case to court, and what searches were illegal? because I feel like I was deffinently violated rights.What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? | 
10-28-2009, 04:14 PM
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