[brianl703]

That's why cops who are just going on fishing expeditions won't search if consent isn't given (if they're smart and realize that going forward increases their chances of having to find a new career when the department learns he just cost them a big chunk of change...)

[only1percent]

This is not entirely true. If confronting a sketchy looking dude, and in a jurisdiction where federal juries are not quick to award big civil rights awards to people caught with cocaine and who skated jail anyway, they can go ahead and search. Most people caught with a lot of drugs or weapons on an illegal search will go ahead and take a possession plea and do 18 months or 2 years, waiving all of their civil rights plaintiff claims, rather than rolling the dice on doing 10-20 years on the trafficking charges.