Re: [Leica] asked for ID?

["Tom Schofield" <tdschofield@email.msn.com>]

IMHO, the surprisingly great police powers todetain arise because many of
the court decisions on search and seizure come up on drug busts, where one
is stopped for  other reasons, and drugs are noticed -- and no one wants to
let drug dealers or users get off on a technicality!

Tom Schofield


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] asked for ID?


> At 02:54 PM 1/31/2000 -0500, Jeff Moore wrote:
> >2000-01-31-13:17:30 BOB KRAMER:
> >> The next thing I know, a police officer is standing over me asking
> >> for my I.D. and wanting to now what I am doing sitting around this
> >> restaurant at 6:00 in the morning taking pictures!
> >
> >Now, WAIT a minute!  What possible justification could he have for
> >asking any of that?
>
> That's irrelevant, Jeff, to the powers-that-be.  The US Supreme Court has
> long accorded to the police the right to ask any citizen, at any time,
> their name and reason for being at the place, and for ID.  It may well be
a
> sad commentary on the state of the US that the police ARE given this
> authority, but they do have it.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>
>