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What Constitutes Probable Suspicion? Should I Even Try And Fight It?

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Location: Florida

Back a couple weeks ago, It was about midnight on a Friday night. I was pulling onto a main road from a side street from what the officer said was "the dope hole." (who even says that, lol). He immediately got behind me and lit me up. He said the reason he pulled me was because even though its a side road with barricades, I didnt stop again at the end of the side road before turning. Im pretty sure I did, but maybe it wasnt a full stop. Also, if it wasnt that he would have pulled me over for something.

He comes to my window and does the normal license insurance registration. He then asked if he could search the car for weapons for his safety. I said no. Then I was on the phone and he said why are u nervous adn sweating. Well for one Ive been sweating all damn day. There were roofers at my house and they had shut the a/c off and forgot to click it back on. I was actually headed to a friends house to grab one of those tall stand up fans. Also, I normally speak kinda quickly. My phone rang up 4 times coming up over my bluetooth screen and the officer said your phone keeps ringing. im like yeah ok. so? He then asks if he can search for drugs. I say no. He said he wasnt going to give me a ticket but he thinks he probably will. Whatever. Well I have a prior drug charge from 2020 and a technical vop from 2021. thats it. He said he was gonna bring the dog out.

I sat in the car no lie, 40 mins before the dog got there. I asked if I could go because he was taking so long and they had already wrote the ticket. They gave my license back, but not the ticket. the other officer confirmed to me though that the citation was complete they were just waiting on the k9. Now i thought because i had not done anything but a simple traffic infraction they only had a certain amt of reasonable time to get the dogs. Then I saw about 9 more units pull up. Yep im going to jail. The dog alerted on my passenger door, and they tore my car apart and located narcotics, i got charged with the narcotics and was taken to jail. Once they read my rights i said NOTHING. I also am on crutches for a broken femur and thats a whole other ordeal when nthey took them from me at the jail. My question is should I even try to fight it? Do I have case against illegal search? They do not wear body cams in my area. The cops here are such trashy a holes. Im not sure what to do. its 4400 for a lawyer and I had to pay over 2000 to get out and my car out of impound and im not working due to my injuries at the moment. Please advise.

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