Can a parole officer search a vehicle w/o permission from owner, a warrant and the vehicle does not belong to the person on parole?
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Can a parole officer search a vehicle w/o permission from owner, a warrant and the vehicle does not belong to the person on parole?
My boyfriend is on parole and he went to see his officer. They searched my car (he was not in the car at all) and no probable cause, no warrant, no officers. They also kept my keys and registration. The following day he goes back down to the office to check in and they gripped him up by his shirt and took him into a small room and beat him up w/o leaving marks, like bending his arm back, choking,elbowing, kneeing him because they said he had an attitude.
Asked on May 5, 2009 under Criminal Law, Pennsylvania
Answers:
B. B., Member, New Jersey Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 14 years ago | Contributor
Parole agents in Pennsylvania do not need probable cause to search a car that is in the possession or control of a person on parole, only reasonable suspicion of a probation violation, and no warrant is necessary. This is in the statute (written law) and it is probably part of the standard conditions of parole that should have been given to your boyfriend. If he had the keys to your car, he had enough control of it that he did not have to be in it when they searched.
There is no justification at all for parole agents beating him up.
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