Paris Hilton has a pretty good record of getting free from legal problems, and her arrest for cocaine may be even easier to walk away from than the others. While the heiress did do three weeks in the slammer for her 2006 DUI bust, she got out of another charge of marijuana possession by claiming the weed belonged to a friend. Now her Vegas coke bust could wind up getting dismissed due to an improper search—and some high-priced legal help.

It seems the Las Vegas cops who arrested Paris this weekend didn’t do it immediately after smelling marijuana wafting from her vehicle. Instead they took her to the security office of the Wynn Las Vegas hotel, where they found the drugs in her bag and arrested her. The Wynn office is equipped with security cameras that caught the whole thing on tape. This could work in Paris’ favor, as a source told RadarOnline, “the search of Paris and arrest was all captured on tape, which could help her tremendously. Her lawyer David Chesnoff is going to claim it was an illegal search, in part because she was taken away from the scene to this other location. Chesnoff will also be able to take apart every single thing that happened during the search and arrest because he’ll have the video to work off of.

“Furthermore, Paris repeatedly said while she was being detained that the purse wasn’t hers. Chesnoff is going to get the tape and use it to bolster his contention that the search was illegal.” Now we know why Paris isn’t too upset over the bust!