-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.GSO.3.95.970617010815.5659A-100000@ece>, on 06/17/97 at 12:14 AM, Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu> said:
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, William H. Geiger III wrote:
If I went and rented a truck and there was a "roach" in the ashtray I should not be held accountable for possesion unless it could be proved that it was mine and not from someone else that had used the truck or even a worker at the retal shop.
But if you drive for several miles, and get pulled over for speeding, the fact that it's still in the truck is probably going to land you in jail, if the cop finds some reason to search the truck. (The smell of marijuana or seeing the roach sitting the ashtray are valid reasons I believe)
If you haven't disposed of it, you're probably going to land in jail.
From the law enforcement's point of view, can you see any difference between your story and that of a person who's actually smoking? (Honest officer, it was in the truck when I got in!) the evidence is there, and you'll probably need to depend on character witnesses to get out of a conviction...
Well usually when someone gets nailed on somthing like this its in their own vehicle. I would think that with it being a rental that one would have plausible deniability and additional evidence would be required. Ofcource if when you roll down the window a big cloud of some rolls out (ala cheech & chong) that's another matter. :) - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM6ZBdI9Co1n+aLhhAQFloQQAogLfwKfeHP71rLxlRpz1pL09cyZXNZ5y 5S7k776XTvr5Iryt7NvO84uRI3qnjtbvuctoD+lANhZeKG4Cuj4KMUoioCqotRg/ 5jeVC89CTnnorB07uDRGhVYCmlBoTBO3mDO3t4QkU60zdRdMcF6ydfppP0koys8w xKjV562B6Dk= =4zjf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----