Legal Question in Criminal Law in North Carolina

My son (27) upon closing drove his supervisor to bank to make deposit. The supervisor asked if my son could pick up a friend and did so. When driving to drop supervisor and his friend off, they were stopped due to road block. The officer asked them to pull over, said he could smell pot and the officer searched them and the car. The supervisor had stuffed his baggie with about a 50 cent piece size amount of pot in a baggie behind his passenger seat. The friend had a scale and threw it under the rear of the drivers seat. My son denied either was his and the supervisor denied it was his even though it was. The scale belonging to the friend, who is a minor was let go.

I paid the magistrate $500 to get my son released. He has a court date for April 11th, 2014. The supervisor was released the next day refuses to take ownership and my son is facing misdemeanor charges of pot and the scale. The supervisor I found out was on probation and decided to deny it because it would be problematic for him. Although he faces charges as well, but has put my son in a very tenuous situation. He could lose his license for his physical therapy. I believe it would be in his best interest to hire a lawyer. He has no previous offenses. In fact when the officer could not get anyone to own up to it, he said if my son had he would have given him a ticket. I don't know how credible that was. What can we do to protect my son's future and keep him from being barred from performing his job.

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