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Originally Posted by SimplyRavishing
Perhaps he was concerned about it being an illegal search. Meaning, if it's found that the search is illegal, then it can't be used as evidence.
I don't want to look up the law. I'm pretty sure that if the Brother and Ex-BF go onto the Avery property illegally, and find the car, then turn that information over to the police, the police are well within their rights to use that information.
The police, and agents of the police, are not allowed to conduct illegal searches. So long as the brother and ex are not specifically working on behalf of the police, things would be fine.
At worst the brother and ex would be looking at a trespassing charge, but it's a scrap yard, they could have just shown up in broad day light and been like "can I walk around your yard?". Every scrap yard I've ever been to has allowed that.
I'm not a lawyer.