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Supreme Court rules you can be arrested for withholding your name



JOAN BISKUPIC GANNETT NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON -- A police officer can force a person to identify himself, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case involving a Nevada rancher who was fined $250 for refusing to give his name to an officer who was investigating a possible assault.
By a 5-4 vote, the justices said that as long as an officer reasonably suspects wrongdoing is under way, the state law under which the rancher was charged does not violate either the Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures or the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The ruling essentially validates more than a dozen "stop-and-identify" statutes nationwide.

"Asking questions is an essential part of police investigations," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court. "In the ordinary course, a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment."

The four dissenting justices, all from the liberal wing of the court, said the ruling broke with court precedent that had permitted people detained in brief police stops not to give their names.


Welcome to the police state.;(

EDIT: One more thought. This ruling now allows for taking the 5th to be a crime worthy of arrest, and imply guilt when it is supposed to expressly prevent that.