Hi everybody,
I got busted with approx an ounce of weed stored in an air tight jar, three cookie cans with lids on containing approx 1/2 ounce of dried leafes and a 4*4 tent with a 600HPS dimmed to 400W and one plant 20 inch tall still vegging.
The police claimed that strong cannabis smell was the reason for the search without a court order. Three police officers went in.
However there are some huge problems with their argument:
1. They did not use dogs just humans to "detect the smell"
2. The door frames in the hallway had been painted the same day and it still smelled strong from drying paint outside my door.
3. It was the closed outside door and a passage of 8 feet and another closed door between the smelling officers and the stuff. The tent was closed with a fan and a carbon filter on and the other stash was as mentioned kept in an air tight jar (the ounce of weed) and the cookie cans with drying leaves (hardly any thc in them or smell from them) was kept under a pile of clothing in a closet with a closed door. All windows was closed.
4. Prior to checking my hallway, they checked to two other hallways in the building for over an hour. There are totally 3 hallways with 12 apartments each (2*6 floors) in the building. This leads me to the conclusion that this was a random search based on social profiling (there are mostly families and 40+ people living in the building except me and a few others)
My claim is that it is physically impossible to detect a "strong smell of cannabis" under these conditions and that the search therefore is illegal.
Looking for anyone with experience, information, advice on how/if I can prove my claim and use this to get out of legal problems!
Thnx
I got busted with approx an ounce of weed stored in an air tight jar, three cookie cans with lids on containing approx 1/2 ounce of dried leafes and a 4*4 tent with a 600HPS dimmed to 400W and one plant 20 inch tall still vegging.
The police claimed that strong cannabis smell was the reason for the search without a court order. Three police officers went in.
However there are some huge problems with their argument:
1. They did not use dogs just humans to "detect the smell"
2. The door frames in the hallway had been painted the same day and it still smelled strong from drying paint outside my door.
3. It was the closed outside door and a passage of 8 feet and another closed door between the smelling officers and the stuff. The tent was closed with a fan and a carbon filter on and the other stash was as mentioned kept in an air tight jar (the ounce of weed) and the cookie cans with drying leaves (hardly any thc in them or smell from them) was kept under a pile of clothing in a closet with a closed door. All windows was closed.
4. Prior to checking my hallway, they checked to two other hallways in the building for over an hour. There are totally 3 hallways with 12 apartments each (2*6 floors) in the building. This leads me to the conclusion that this was a random search based on social profiling (there are mostly families and 40+ people living in the building except me and a few others)
My claim is that it is physically impossible to detect a "strong smell of cannabis" under these conditions and that the search therefore is illegal.
Looking for anyone with experience, information, advice on how/if I can prove my claim and use this to get out of legal problems!
Thnx