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i was blazing with 9 other kids in the woods nd the cops came luckily i had nothing on me, and nothing in my car but i might be getting charged with eluding arrest since i tried to run. what i want to kno is if i had to be read my miranda rights cause i wasnt. im only 17 if that helps at all too
did you get arrested?
Do they read peoples rights when they are not of age? I have no clue, so forgive me if it sounds dumb. :)
Im from the UK so i'm not positive but i think they should officially read you your rights, however just because they don't does not make the arrest legally void, it's extremely unliekly you can make anything of it, i.e no, not the fact that they didn't bother with your rights doesn't really grant you any protection. I doubt you will be in much toruble, if you are polite to them they probably won't charge you.
you where in the woods and let the cops walk up on you?.
when i see the cops im the first one to run, no hesitation.
I don't know, but if u find out they were supposed to, sum ppl have actually gotten off bc the po po didn't read them their rights. Shows em right, but seriously u should look into that.
Ya, if they arrested you without reading you your Miranda rights you may have a case to get out of. I'm not 100% sure you'll prolly need some sort of legal representation.
I've run from the cops before and gotten caught but they've never charged me with eluding arrest.
Let us know how it goes.
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Originally Posted by yzstoned
so if you had nothing on you why'd you try to run?:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by yzstoned
Well you are underage, but I think they still have to read you tour rights... could be wrong though.
But I had a close encounter with cops and the woods a few weeks ago.. I posted the story on here;
http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=80910
You weren't arrested...just detained...they have no evidence, this sounds like a shitty case to me.
You should get off easy...matter of fact they shouldnt even be harrassing you any longer already...they have no case.
we were smoking nd they jus ran up outta no where it was so weird cause we were talking about how white lighters were bad luck nd u get caught nd my friend peeled the decal off a bic lighter nd it was white than he threw it nd litterally 10 seconds later there were copsQuote:
Originally Posted by Cas
I f you werent read your rights, then you can easily get your case thrown out...but thats only if you got arrested...But like Tomorrow said, sounds like they have no case so get in their face (not literaly, and be as polite as possible) and tell them they need to charge you or leave you alone, if they case is that shitty theyll usually not waste their time
And for future refernce, visit the NORML website, they break down they various laws for every state, which is VERY helpfull....
yea i actually did check norml but since none of my charges are related to possesion it hasnt really helped me out
Oh..well if you get charged with elsusion only, thats a completely different case. I know theres some law about how if someone is eluding an officer that the po-po can wait till your detained (like in handcuffs in the backseat, or where the officer knows you cant easily run again) to read you your rights, but outright not reading them to you pretty much means a dismissal.
If you don't have anything on you, you shouldn't run. Even if you do have something on you, you shouldn't run. They'll follow. Curfew charge is nowhere near as bad as evading arrest, but I'm sure you realize that now. Whatever happens, good luck.Quote:
Originally Posted by yzstoned
Well if they did not say you under arrest since you had nothing on you, how can they charge you with evading arrest? Sounds like the cop is a little Dieee Dideeeee to me :D And also the cop did not read you your rights when he illegaly dedatined you. I would own that cop in court if I were you:thumbsup:
He ran. Cops are allowed a lot of freedom when you run.Quote:
Originally Posted by NWDankBudz
It depends they don't have to read you your right's depends on what kind of case it is. I had them make me sign that my right's where read one time. but your best bet is not to say a word
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Originally Posted by Captain Jack Sparrow
wrong wrong wrong. you eluded a police officer before he had a chance to read you your rights. he couldn't recite them to you while he was chasing you down. you almost never get charged if he found nothing on you and someone else claimed ownership of anything they found (assuming they did) plus your 17 and a charge is even more unlikely.
I don't get it. Couldn't he recite them to you after he catches you? When he's arresting you?Quote:
Originally Posted by jmdogg88
Isn't that the whole point? To have your rights read to you AS YOUR BEING ARRESTED?
Again, I'm not a legal expert, just wondering here myself.
They don't read you your right's if they don't have any thing to charge you with! an thay can try to get away with anything if you let them.
sound's like it was a bunch of rookies trying to make there boones.
don't worry about it they don't have shit.
also wud i get drug tested if somehow i lost the case nd got charged if it was only eluding police, and one other thing after nyone has got caught has their highs been ruined for a while cause everytime since than i get high as soon as i think of it or something my high starts to be less intense
I'm pretty sure you can't get charged if you wern't arrested. Also, if your not of legal age in you state/country, you wont do time anyway, heck you wont even get a record.
they slap your hand an send u home with parent
"or lie in court agenst you"
Good luck Kegs
you only get read your rights when you are under arrest.
Well if they ran up on you smoking that tree they aren't only charging you with eluding arrest and if they did charge you with eluding arrest then they arrested you or are giving you a bogus charge and are legally obligated to read you your rights. I found out when i was arrested at 13 and not read my rights the case was thrown out completely.
He wasn't arrested thats why he didn't get read his rights.
O.K.
If you are in the US and this happened, most of the times, running from the police is an automatic felony.
However, since you are a minor, and no substance of abuse, paraphenelia, etc. were found on you, the officer may have in fact thought you were not doing anything illegal and/or he just wanted to be nice and cut you some slack, since a felonious act conviction at an age of a minor for nothing could really mess your life up or he knew he had nothing ecxept you running.
In addition, it sounds to me like running from the police may or may not be synonymous with "eluding". Does that refer to actual hardcore running like you see some times on cops? To me it sounds less than the automatic felony situations.
Unless you have the running skills of a fuckin cheetah, never run from the police even if you are guilty (esp. of possession, contingent on local law), since almost always (if not always), running from the police makes matters worse, since in some states (CA), simple possesion is the equiv of a traffic ticket (for adults, for minors a slap on the wrist and then they leave it to your parents to do the rest).
Cops are trained to catch people that run, and if you're a smoker, you probably cant run long, and either way, you cant outrun a radio.