Was it an illegal search?! plz comment :)?

this is what happened it was 12pm on a weekend me and 3 other people all 16yrs old and the driver 19 were parked on a street with our lights on we pulld over too look at this pic we took on our cam. a cop happens to drive by and pull us over he cums up and we explain what we were doin, lookn at pics. he askes the driver to step out to talk, the cop opens tha door and withought asking to search the car picked up a random bag that was in the car opens it and finds a one hitter (parefenillia) so then hehand cuffs all of us calls for backup an continues searching the car, next he openss my personal school back pack looking through all my stuff, withough consent again and finds a one hitter box wih sprinkles of marijuana inside we all go to jail..in court were taking it to trialto see if it could have been an illegal search or not,what do you think? you think it was an illegal search or do you think we are wasting our time..?