in my shitty state you don't have to have your rights read to you. they threatened to arrest my brother unless he let them in the house (he doesn't even live here and was only working on his car behind the house). they came in on me sleeping. they found only dead plants in the garbage can. i had thrown them away about 3 days before. anyway, despite their obvious brown-ness and shit, all fucked up, they still charged my ass. illegal search and seizure. my brother is not on probation or anything like that, he doesn't live here, and they made him open the door when they didn't have a warrant threatening him with charges and arrest. COPS CAN LIE TO YOU. our country is so fucked up dude. they even took my salvia that i bought at my local headshop. seriously, what the fuck?
thanks for the replies all....i'm in a really bad place right now.
i do not have a good attorney yet. i'm going "court-appointed" at the arraignment to get a publicly funded lawyer. if he sucks, i'll fire him by the time the trial comes. but, good for me, the evidence takes about 1 year and 6-10 months to process. so i'll have plenty of time to figure if i want to keep him or not.
i had a lot of "evidence" as they took about 30 smoking pieces, 20 lights, bout 10 grams of about 9 different types of weed, just a lot of shit to analyze. this case will not be in court before i graduate college, so i'm sitting pretty as far as i'm concerned.
the fact is that i have no criminal record. i'm a clean sheet all the way thru my full academic scholarship at the school in the town i grew up in. getting caught was stupid. but i think i'm going to be alright after all of this is done. i think i have a really strong case.
thanks so much for all the replies. i've missed RIU a lot if that makes sense
