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Originally Posted by ObieX
They have to give you a reason. And yes i have let a cop search my home after asking.
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no, you dont' have to if they ask. If they ASK, they obviously have no reasonable articulate suspicion or probable cause. You do NOT have to let them search if they ask.
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Originally Posted by ObieX
He had a good reason. If the officer didn't have one, or a warrant, i probably would not allow him inside. Everything always depends on the situation and if it is handled in a non-assholeish manner.
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I've said this before. The police are not your friends. They don't care about situations or circumstances. If they ask to search, they are wanting you to let them go on a fishing expedition. You do not have to let them do so.
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Originally Posted by ObieX
The officer had a reason to be in the house in the case of this professor. Staying? That's something else, but it may have had something to do with the way the professor was acting toward the officer that provoked a longer visit. Who knows.. maybe the officer thought that there may really be an actual burglar still inside the house that the newly returned homeowner had not yet discovered? That's the way a lot of cops are trained and/or think.
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The officer would have been in his rights in ONLY checking out the house to make sure there was no other immediate situation going on like a hostage situation. That would have been it. Once that was ascertained, the officer had no further reason to be there and definitely no reason to start asking a bunch of questions. The Professor was well within his rights at that time to demand that they leave and they would have been obligated to do so.