As you might remember I'm in a paralegal course at UCLA and my latest professor is a DA with 36 yrs experience. I asked him a hypothetical today, since we were talking about search and seizure laws, and aiding and abeting criminals blahblahblah.
Anyway, I said look, I had a roommate in undergrad who smoked pot and thought it was just fine to invite all of her friends over for a pot smoking party. I kicked them all out because I was freaked out that someone would smell it and arrest me, since I lived there too, even if I wasnt partaking. He said not only would smelling it give them probable cause to knock on my door, but that they would definately have cause to arrest me as well, even if I wasnt participating (which he pointed out would be difficult to prove.)
So the moral of the story is, if you arent interested in accepting the possible criminal consequences of your guests' or housemates' illegal activities, done let people do it in your back yard. :P
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on 2005-10-25 03:19 am (UTC)As you might remember I'm in a paralegal course at UCLA and my latest professor is a DA with 36 yrs experience. I asked him a hypothetical today, since we were talking about search and seizure laws, and aiding and abeting criminals blahblahblah.
Anyway, I said look, I had a roommate in undergrad who smoked pot and thought it was just fine to invite all of her friends over for a pot smoking party. I kicked them all out because I was freaked out that someone would smell it and arrest me, since I lived there too, even if I wasnt partaking. He said not only would smelling it give them probable cause to knock on my door, but that they would definately have cause to arrest me as well, even if I wasnt participating (which he pointed out would be difficult to prove.)
So the moral of the story is, if you arent interested in accepting the possible criminal consequences of your guests' or housemates' illegal activities, done let people do it in your back yard. :P