What a meth: Woman held for 3 months after cops mistake candy floss for drugs

theregister.co.uk

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Moral of the story: if the police have to ask for permission to search your {car,house,person}, the answer should pretty much always be no.

The 4th amendment is your friend and will atrophy if not used.

Then they call in the dogs and cue them to indicate probable suspicion. Problem solved! /s

I understand that in at least some jurisdictions you can refuse a dig search and just be arrested.

That doesn't sound like much of a win.

With a proper warrant that is fine.

Candy isn’t going to set off dogs.

Understandably. But they train the dogs to provide false positives, and then they arrest you anyways.

I'm not sure why you think that is the moral of the story of someone being held as a prisoner for 3 months for no reason.