Posted on 02/26/2020 1:40:05 PM PST by FewsOrange
Theft? Perhaps not.Obstruction? Maybe...although I’m not a lawyer.
“Hey, I thought it was put there by a competitor”
What’s bizarre about these type of guys is that it may be reasonable to happen.
He should have popped it off and attached it to a police car, that way he could say, he just gave them back what was theirs.
Competitor, ex wife’s PI, etc.
Not saying I ate it; however, I am saying that it will not be there. :)
Wanna have lots of fun, remove it from your car, find the head of the local Democrat Party Committee and stick it to HIS car.
Well, they gave it away, so they must not have wanted it any more.....................
“Theft? Perhaps not.Obstruction? Maybe...although I’m not a lawyer.”
The man found something in his car he did not see out there or giver permission to put there. By natural law it is his property to do with what he wishes. The police have acted like pompous, ignorant fools in this instance.
Good ruling. Just imagine law enforcement doing this to you in the future because you are suspected of what once was legal, such as possessing and transporting firearms. Actually, there are places that is illegal, but people haven’t exercised their 2A rights to ensure those rights are not infringed.
At least they would be able to ascertain where the pot dealers and welfare offices are in the town.
I can’t see even that.
Suppose someone stuck something to your car. say some dark box shaped thing on the undercarriage. You have no idea what it is, perhaps thinking maybe it was something in the road that got kicked up by a tire and somehow stuck there.
You could have easily peeled it off and thrown it away.
“I didn’t know what it was...I thought it might be an explosive device”
officers should have known better than to lean on such a flimsy excuse for probable cause
Maybe the judge who signed off on the warrant should have known better also?
It was certainly not theft nor obstruction...think the 5th might apply here...
Though I might have put it on a transfer truck and let ‘em chase that around for a while....
Agree. Good ruling. Shoddy work by the police involved getting the warrant. I didnt read further but I bet the meth perp got off because of it.
How did he spot it? I doubt the cops stuck it on top with a magnet.
This very situation arose in the Pike County Ohio massacre. A family relative, who the police suspected, removed a tracker and was charged with tampering with it. The actual perps were another family... the Wagners, who are currently awaiting trial.
To say otherwise is almost as bad as the Chinese Commies shooting a man and then billing the family for the bullets.
Neither
How is he suppose to know who it belongs to?
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