Knives in police departments? (specifically GA)

[glistam]

I've already run this by a qualified attorney, Charlie. Several actually. You're application of Heien to the type of cases we're discussing is without merit. I can get my friend who is a federal judge to weigh too, if you want. Unless you can produce a copy of your admission to the bar, I'm not interested in your opinion.

 

[Charlie_K]

And for every judge that wouldn't allow such nonsense in their courtroom, there's at least one who will allow the matter to go to trial for the jury to sort out, at your own personal expense. The opinions of a single judge doesn't amount to much of anything, when it's entirely up to the interpretive discretion of whoever's in rotation at the time. One judge may say no, but the other may say yes regardless.

 

[Thomas Linton]

Ignore the people talking about "search incident to arrest" (something that ended years ago a la USSC) and "warrantless searches" and other inconsequential minutiae.

If you have to drop something off at the police department then go drop something off. If there is no metal detector to pass through then the topic is irrelevant. If there is a metal detector, tell the person staffing it that you are there simply to drop off paperwork at the desk sergeant and see if they can hold it or do you need to "take it back to my car." If they say they won't hold it, go outside and find some place to hide it on the ground. Under a bush, inside an empty chip bag inside a trashcan, etc.

Your actual task should only take twenty seconds. Your planning for this task shouldn't take hours.

Good advice. My Endura (black !!!) once spent the better part of a day in a potted shrub.

You might, however, inform the federal courts of your insight that 'search incidental to arrest" (AKA "SITA" or "Chimel Rule") is now an obsolete concept. Even the Supreme Court seems to have missed that. Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S. 332 (2009); United States v. Wurie, 738 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2013), No. 13-212 ___ U.S. ___ (2014)

That the law deals with what you regard as trivia I certainly get. To a defendant, it may still be rather important. As in years in jail or free important.