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lilbitdvs
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i was at a friends place of business to pick up his paperwork to do taxes. he was not there. when i was about to leave, police raided the place claiming to have a search warrant. They were looking for methamphetamines. They asked me why I was there and my relationship to the owner. I told them I was his tax preparer and was to meet owner there. They asked me if i'd ever been arrested, which i had been, for CA H&S 11377. (I completed the "drug court" program in 1997 for this charge.) They asked me to sit and get my id, the officer then asked if he could look in my purse because I replied that I had not been using Meth. I shrugged my shoulders as he was already looking through it. He then asked me which car was mine, I told him "the red car". He did not ask if he could look in my car and he took the keys out of my hand. Just as I thought they were going to let me go, another officer said that a small baggie with crank residue was found in the console of the car which Valtox tested positive. I claimed to have no knowledge of the baggie. After my purse was searched by two officers and inventoried, I was called into another room by a female officer who read my rights and recorded our conversation. I answered her honestly. when i returned to the other room, the cops were pissed because they said they found two syringes in the lining of my purse. I did not admit they were mine. I was booked on an 11377 and BP4140 and was bailed the next morning. My ?, was this a legal search of my car? If not, does that make the search of my purse illegal as well? I did not give consent to search the car but officer says I did, does it even matter? I may fall under the new prop 36 but unsure if my previous arrest will affect that due to graduation from "drug court"? This was in Sac, CA on 1/22/01
[Edited by lilbitdvs on 01-24-2001 at 06:28 AM]
[Edited by lilbitdvs on 01-24-2001 at 06:28 AM]