Kayla Murphy

Like usually they'll do their thing.

You know what I mean?

They'll use whatever facts, innocuous or not.

And it's like on the back end when we're like fighting the case later where it's like these facts were not sufficient to get you where you need to go.

Okay.

But I mean, frankly, I feel like if they want to get you for something, like they're going to have

find a way to justify it most of the time.

The cop can, you know, internally reason that they've met that threshold in order to search your car.

So I would say like, if it was me personally, I would say like,

I'm not going to voluntarily consent to any kind of search.

And then, you know, insofar as they have some kind of like legal ability to do that, then it's like, you know, it's not with your consent.

So like, you know, you have to either like have a warrant or some kind of like exception to the warrant requirement.

I'm not consenting to that.

Just so I know what to say to them.

And then they might like still do it because maybe they think they've met, you know, some kind of legal threshold or have some kind of exception to the warrant requirement.

But that, you know, you're protecting yourself later on by not giving consent because you're giving your attorney the ability to like fight the legal standard that the cops tried to say the facts were.

met you know what i mean okay whereas like if you had consented it's like well and they find stuff in your car it's like well what am i supposed to do man you can send it in search but it's like if they did an illegal search because you know what i mean they just smelled marijuana or something we know that's not sufficient we can fight it later okay that makes sense i um i always try to

Personally, I would not volunteer any information.

Okay.

And I think that that gives your attorney the most leverage to where if they both find something in your car and you've already admitted that you both know that thing is there and that it belongs to you, that puts you – you know, your attorney in more of a tight corner where it's like you didn't say anything.