Innocent People Aren’t Required To Identify Themselves, And Police Have No Authority To Arrest Them
-Qualified immunity protects public officials “from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have,” the court said, adding that the trooper “acted contrary to the plain meaning” of the state statute.
...hmm, makes sense to me, I wonder what Pulaski County Sheriff's Office thinks about that?
p.s. Jim Crow Sucks
Ean Bordeaux, pro per
Creole Intrests Reporter
Citizen Complainant
-E pluribus Unum
8th Circuit Federal Court Of Appeals Rules That Innocent People Aren’t Required To Identify Themselves, And Police Have No Authority To Arrest Them If They Don’t
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LITTLE ROCK, AR - A police officer does not have the authority to arrest someone for refusing to identify himself when he is not suspected of committing a crime, a federal appeals panel ruled Friday.
The decision by a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis reversed an Arkansas federal judge’s ruling and ordered a new hearing in a Benton County man’s lawsuit challenging his arrest for refusing to show his identification during a traffic stop.
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...hmm, makes sense to me, I wonder what Pulaski County Sheriff's Office thinks about that?
p.s. Jim Crow Sucks
Ean Bordeaux, pro per
Creole Intrests Reporter
Citizen Complainant
-E pluribus Unum
8th Circuit Federal Court Of Appeals Rules That Innocent People Aren’t Required To Identify Themselves, And Police Have No Authority To Arrest Them If They Don’t
Posted by Admin
Published in ARKANSAS
LITTLE ROCK, AR - A police officer does not have the authority to arrest someone for refusing to identify himself when he is not suspected of committing a crime, a federal appeals panel ruled Friday.
The decision by a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis reversed an Arkansas federal judge’s ruling and ordered a new hearing in a Benton County man’s lawsuit challenging his arrest for refusing to show his identification during a traffic stop.
Read The Full Article
