Cooperate -- or else!

[RS Davis]

[glow=red,2,300]Timothy Lynch Wrote:[/glow] When the police do not have an arrest warrant or a search warrant, they often try to get people to 'consent' to questioning -- so that when the detention is later challenged in court they can say, 'It's true we had no warrant, but this detention was voluntary.' Larry Hiibel made it very clear that he was not going to play that game. Hiibel withheld his consent -- and for exercising his right, he landed in a jail cell. Can standing quietly on a sidewalk possibly be a criminal offense in America? The Supreme Court will soon decide whether it was the police officer's arrest, or Mr. Hiibel's silence, that was unlawful.

- Rick