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If you have not been charged with a crime, can you just refuse to hand over your cards?
by sangfroid 10y ago
If you have not been charged with a crime, can you just refuse to hand over your cards?
- dpc59 10y agoThen they charge you for obstruction (or whatever it's called in oklahoma, in french it's called "entrave à un agent de la paix")
- ihsw 10y agoIt is obstruction of justice and it's very unpleasant. If they're so inclined they can take your things by force and you will have no reasonable means of recourse.
- orbitingpluto 10y agoIsn't the question, "obstructing what?"
- CobrastanJorji 10y agoAnd the answer, of course, is "Justice." It's like being charged solely with resisting arrest.
- orbitingpluto 10y agoOr destruction of government property when you bleed on them during a beating? Ferguson: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/15/the-day-ferguson-cops-were-caught-in-a-bloody-lie.html http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/15/the-day-fer...
- cehrnrooth 10y agoThat seems questionable, how can they charge you with obstruction when you can just not answer any questions you're not legally obligated to answer.
- trbvm2 10y agoI tried to write the long answer and it turned out as a wall of text composed of parenthetical caveats. Then I tried to right the short answer and it turned out as a medium length yet confusing answer. The truth of the matter is that people are barely evolved ape/chimps and do pretty much whatever suites them as long as they don't get their ass kicked for it.
- tripzilch 10y agoThanks! I'm saving this comment for its general applicability to, unfortunately, anything.
- stonemetal 10y agoYes, that would be the fourth amendment.