Q: If you are parked in front of someone house, can the police pull up behind you no light or anything.
Question you on why you are parked there, and ask to search your car and u say no so they bring the dog and they claim the dog signaled them and start searching the car. Happen to find a gun under the seat but no drugs or anything else. Is this a legal search. What would be the probable cause to search. This happen to a friend of mine, who didn't have a ccw. Cops claimed that they were parked in front of a know drug house so that was probable cause to search. Just dont seem right .
A: I would suspect that the police were actively watching that house, and had a pretty good idea of who was coming and going, and for what reasons. At the very least there is reasonable suspicion, which would allow for a brief period of detainment. Without knowing more about the case, it's hard to say. I would say that unless the stop is found to be bad, I don't see how your friend is going to successfully argue to suppress the found evidence (e.g. the gun).
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