[last_responder]

>that his possession was unlawful.

There is no law being broken so it does not matter what he said or did.

[t-writescode]

While that may or may not be true, it's very easy to say things like that and much much harder to deal with the situation in a "rights above safety, to eternal ends" and "perfect world" perspective when in the situation as a flesh-and-blood version of ones self.