To: SoothsayerToo; All
From my limited legal knowledge, any police office may request your ID if he has probable cause! If you do not have any on you, they [law enforcement] can hold you for 72 hours to determine you positive id. Now this may vary from state to state, but I think that they are all most the same everywhere.
3 posted on
11/29/2005 4:44:55 PM PST by
TMSuchman
(2nd Generation U.S. MARINE, 3rd Generation American & PROUD OF IT!)
To: TMSuchman
The key is probable cause. Just being a passenger on a bus does not meet this test.
To: TMSuchman
This was not a case of probable cause. According to the account I read, the feds got on the bus, she was not getting off on fed property, she was on the bus reading, she had shown ID before and says she had simply had enough. They asked everyone on the bus for ID, she refused. I agree with her. If she was trying to get into a fed installation, sure, but she wasn't. BTW, simply asking for ID isn't probable cause either!
8 posted on
11/29/2005 5:22:00 PM PST by
calex59
(Seeing the light shouldn't make you blind...)
To: TMSuchman
"From my limited legal knowledge, any police office may request your ID if he has probable cause!"
Actually, the standard is "reasonable suspicion," which is much easier to satisfy.
24 posted on
11/30/2005 5:18:51 AM PST by
BeHoldAPaleHorse
(MORE COWBELL! MORE COWBELL! (CLANK-CLANK-CLANK))
To: TMSuchman
From my limited legal knowledge, any police office may request your ID if he has probable cause! I believe that you are incorrect on this. Probable cause is no longer requried.
38 posted on
11/30/2005 2:19:16 PM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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