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Originally Posted by Stealhead
The thing I am most leery of is my car/vehicle being searched.You have no way of knowing an honest cop from a crooked one that "finds" something illegal.Luckily I fairly rarely ever get pulled over and thus far I have never been asked.Thing is a rotten one can just make up a reason to both pull you over and search you.
Only issue with a voice recorder is it would not be admissible if any party being recorded was unaware so far as I understand things.So you'd have to say "This is being recorded for posterity".
All I know is I have a few friends that are in law enforcement and they all say that they would refuse a vehicle search.The whole consent thing is the law(cops) trying use the law against you.
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I would say that refusing a search would be an exercise in futility and would only serve to make the officer suspicious. Better to be polite and not give your consent to a search. One can never know what might be found. Contraband left by a passenger will get you arrested. By not giving consent, anything found is not admissible as evidence against you if you didn't know it was there. Too many cops use the same one liner to give them probable cause to search your vehicle. "I smell Marijuana" Resist the urge for a snappy comeback like... " Gee Officer. You shouldn't smoke pot while on duty"
