What is the name of your state? Texas
I attend a University in Texas and last night I was watching a movie in my friends dorm, when my friend's room mate came in with his friends and started smoking weed out of a vaporizer. They didnt think it could smell, and it really didnt that bad, when someone knocked on the door. The room mate opened it and saw it was a cop and tried to shut the door. The cop then stuck his foot in the door saying that he had the right to come in because he could smell burnt weed outside the door, which he couldnt since many other people had walked by and would have said something if it smelled and then he read us all our rights(the door was hardly cracked and the cop couldnt see into the room). He then told us that if we didn't give consent to search the room he would just sit and wait for a warrant in the middle of the room. After that another cop brought something to test the vaporizer for weed, and it came out positive. The cop then scraped out the burnt ashes out of it and took it as evidence. Now my he is being charged with possesion of marijiuana, and paraphernalia because he had a bong, grider, and papers. We asked the police office numorous times to leave and come back with a warrant. I was wondering if all this was legal, and if it is what made him able to just walk right in the room. I realize that its illegal to smoke it, esp. in a dorm room, but it just seemed like that guy got screwed how the cop just kinda busted in.
I attend a University in Texas and last night I was watching a movie in my friends dorm, when my friend's room mate came in with his friends and started smoking weed out of a vaporizer. They didnt think it could smell, and it really didnt that bad, when someone knocked on the door. The room mate opened it and saw it was a cop and tried to shut the door. The cop then stuck his foot in the door saying that he had the right to come in because he could smell burnt weed outside the door, which he couldnt since many other people had walked by and would have said something if it smelled and then he read us all our rights(the door was hardly cracked and the cop couldnt see into the room). He then told us that if we didn't give consent to search the room he would just sit and wait for a warrant in the middle of the room. After that another cop brought something to test the vaporizer for weed, and it came out positive. The cop then scraped out the burnt ashes out of it and took it as evidence. Now my he is being charged with possesion of marijiuana, and paraphernalia because he had a bong, grider, and papers. We asked the police office numorous times to leave and come back with a warrant. I was wondering if all this was legal, and if it is what made him able to just walk right in the room. I realize that its illegal to smoke it, esp. in a dorm room, but it just seemed like that guy got screwed how the cop just kinda busted in.