... so heres the story... a student of a private university (who lives on campus) was ambushed recently... RA's of this certain university responded to complaints about the smell of a specific illegal substance, Mary Jane... The RA's proceeded to knock on the door of this students dorm room and the student opened the door completely unaware of the situation... The two RA's asked the student if they could come in and look around for any evidence and the student complied... The RA's found several empty alcoholic beverage containers and claim to have found small residue of cannabis (a stem most likely)... it is probably important to note that when the RA's did enter the room they were accompanied by on campus security guards... most of the empty beer containers were in a trash bag that was then confiscated by on campus security (all other cans were placed in the bag as well).. there may also be a shattered/broken pipe from previous times in the bag along with maybe one or more empty blunt wrap containers... the RA's then took several pictures of areas they deemed to be cannabis infested... they then left and informed the student he/she will hear about it when classes resume on Monday... well not so fast... 30 minutes later the student recieves another knock on the door, this time the five o ... they ask the student for his/her dl and poceed to ask the student were they got the alcohol from, and then the marijuana from; both of which the student offered no answer to... the officers then write the student a ticket for underage possession of alcohol and leave.... heres the thing... school officials claim that the police have evidence of what they think is cannabis and are sending it out to a lab to be tested, and if proven so, will return in the coming days to arrest the student... obviously any evidence of cannabis was not originally collected or confiscated by the police from the room themselves and no search warrant was issued providing justification for the search and seizure of objects in the room... would the police in this circumstance be within all legal restraints to use evidence collected by a campus RA or security guard against the student?... something just smells fishy to me about the situation.... any opinions or facts regarding this endeavor are greatly appreciated
action.420 Reviewed by action.420 on . trouble on campus, but is it legal? ... so heres the story... a student of a private university (who lives on campus) was ambushed recently... RA's of this certain university responded to complaints about the smell of a specific illegal substance, Mary Jane... The RA's proceeded to knock on the door of this students dorm room and the student opened the door completely unaware of the situation... The two RA's asked the student if they could come in and look around for any evidence and the student complied... The RA's found several Rating: 5