I once defended a fellow whose car was found to be of nterest
to a sniff dog.. traces of pot were found on his floorboard.
He was an Air Force employee on his way to work and the dog was being used in "routine" screening of randomly selected incoming traffic at the gate to the base.
The General had a "zero tolerance" policy towards illegal drugs, especially for people in "sensitive" positions, which this fellow was.
Turned out that he was active in the community working with "troubled youth" and had been foolish enough to lend some of them his car to go to a basketball game.
Because of that I was able to save his job, but he got a 10 day suspension w/o pay. I advised him to take it through the Air Force appeals procedure, but he declined, electing to take it as a lesson learned.
He was not in a "protected class" so I could not file an EEO complaint for him, even if he had asked me to. He just wanted to get it over with. He was not eligible to join the Union, so the Union could not represent him. So he came to me.
If he had had a roach in his ash-tray, he woulda been long gone.
But off the base, the probable cause thing would have stymied the cops, for at most, even if they took it to a prosecuter, and if he took it, it would have been a misdemeanor, if even that. The "trace" would not have been enough.
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