Hello I'm in California and the incident happend in Sequioa National Park.
I was driving home with 4 friends who had marjiuana in the back of my car. A cop pulled out behind us, increased his speed significantly and tail gated me for about a mile. He then pulled us over and told us to keep our hands up on the glass where he could see us. He pulled me out of the car and searched me, didn't find anything and proceeded to search everyone in the car. He found marijuana on one of my friends and put him in handcuffs. He then proceeded to search my car and found two pipes. He later said that he originally pulled me over for crossing the double yellow line, and because he saw frantic movement in the back of the car.
He wrote everyone in the car poss. of drug paraphaneila (4 tickets) when there was only two pipes. He also wrote my other friend that, and a ticket for poss of MJ > OZ.
My question is what can I expect as a consequence, if the pipes belonged to my friends, and they confessed to it am I still held responsible because it's my car, and did the officer have the right authority to pull each of us out of the car and search us, and search my car.
I was driving home with 4 friends who had marjiuana in the back of my car. A cop pulled out behind us, increased his speed significantly and tail gated me for about a mile. He then pulled us over and told us to keep our hands up on the glass where he could see us. He pulled me out of the car and searched me, didn't find anything and proceeded to search everyone in the car. He found marijuana on one of my friends and put him in handcuffs. He then proceeded to search my car and found two pipes. He later said that he originally pulled me over for crossing the double yellow line, and because he saw frantic movement in the back of the car.
He wrote everyone in the car poss. of drug paraphaneila (4 tickets) when there was only two pipes. He also wrote my other friend that, and a ticket for poss of MJ > OZ.
My question is what can I expect as a consequence, if the pipes belonged to my friends, and they confessed to it am I still held responsible because it's my car, and did the officer have the right authority to pull each of us out of the car and search us, and search my car.