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by Johnny555 3530 days ago
One way is by asking -- if the cop said "Did you know that pill was there", and he says "Yeah, grandma is always dropping pills, I was going to pick them up after I got home".

There, proven that he knew they were present and intended take possession.

It's another example of why you should never talk to the police -- it's not going to help you, and may end up hurting you.

http://www.vice.com/read/law-professor-police-interrogation-...

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wow. Thats just insane that you can just get convicted and get your life ruined just like that. Just pure madness. Prbly happens on daily basis to take a productive member of society and throw him into an abyss. scary stuff.
Which is the goal of the drug war.

"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/03/23/poli...