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CHL/LEO wrote:

if a cop ever has to ask you for your consent to search, he's already pre-determined that no exceptions to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement will allow for a lawful warrantless search.

Not always true - quite often I will ask someone if it's OK to search their vehicle even though I've already made the decision to legally search it. I want to see what their reaction is and how they respond. Watching their response can sometimes save us lots of time.

Please explain. How does it save time?

If the "suspect" which is what he is at this time confesses that it's in the trunk, your going to search the rest of the car anyway, right?

Mithras61 wrote:I might have nothing to hide, but if he has to ask then he has no probable cause to search either. I voted no.

If the officer has probable cause, he does not have to have your conscent to search your property?

What is the purpose of my right to give or denie conscent if he can search for what ever they can think of on the spot. Your vehicle matches the description of a possible suspect in the area in another crime. You no way to determine if that is true.

Should you ask him what he is looking for?

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People have been pulled over for simple things that do not amount to a hill of beans. i.e. the license plate bracket obscuring the top of the word Texas on the license plate. Once the traffic stop has began the officer smells what he believes to be marijuanna. In fact it is the pollution from one of our great refinaries or similiar.

Do you give conscent to search?

Nothing to hide. CHL holder and no weapon in the car.