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marsman -> RE: SF porn studio head charged with cocaine (2/12/2013 4:28:46 PM)
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ORIGINAL: muhly22222
Seems fairly minor to me. He'll plead guilty, to a low-degree felony or perhaps a misdemeanor, he'll probably spend no time in prison, and everybody will forget about it in about 6 months.
Really, this is just a person getting busted for having drugs. It happens all the time, regardless of the person's wealth, fame, or status.
With that being said, there could be an interesting legal issue here. Without a lot more facts, I couldn't begin to answer it, though. It is possible that the search that resulted in his being found in possession of cocaine was an illegal search. A mere failure to open the door promptly (what does that mean? 2 seconds? 10 seconds? 30 seconds?) wouldn't give the police probable cause to believe a crime had been committed, and therefore the search would not have been constitutional, which means that the evidence would have to be thrown out. There aren't enough facts in the news story to say whether probable cause existed, though, so again, I don't know what the result of something like that would be.
After re-reading the article it says that "someone reported seeing an online video of people shooting guns inside the hulking building at 14th and Mission streets".
If this is the basis for a search then it sure does sound like an illegal search.
Movie makers often "shoot guns", but these are always fake shootings.
It is ironic that the "building" in question is the old San Francisco Armory...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Armory
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