Search and Seizure at the Supreme Court

Pemdas writes "On March 22nd, the U.S. Supreme Court is slated to hear a case involving an arrest for lack of producing ID on the demand of a police officer. Dudley Hiibel was parked off the road, and was asked 11 times to show ID to the police officer, who gave the justification of 'investigating an investigation.' Finally, he was arrested, and eventually convicted of delaying a police officer,' and fined $250. The incident occurred in Humboldt County, Nevada; Mr. Hiibel's side of the story includes a good section on Terry stops, and has a video of the incident for download. The parallels to the previously covered Gilmore v. Ashcroft case are striking, and the ruling will be an interesting precedent on the issue of requiring ID's. The ACLU, EPIC, and EFF, among others, have filed Amicus briefs in the case."

Comments

Wow

[cptgrudge]

The first thing that ran through my head while reading the summary was a Nazi German saying, "Your papers, please."

Imagine my surprise when the site of the article is papersplease.org.

Re:Wow

[alan_dershowitz]

I found the site contents somewhat ironic:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Re:Wow

[teklob]

These aren't the Jews you're looking for. *waves hand*

Silly me, and I thought...

[Kjella]

'investigating an investigation.'

...it was Internal Affairs that "investigated investigations". Oh well...

Kjella

Re:Silly me, and I thought...

[Bingo Foo]

Yeah, he should have told the officer that that sounded like a conflict of interest. Then he would have been let go for sure.

His webserver must not have shown ID

[Anonymous Coward]

Apparently it's been arrested.

Re:Happened to me

[Neil Blender]

I ended up working late on some Microsoft catastrophe at work.

Nice. Work in a dig at Microsoft. Ah, Slashdot.

Re:Drawing the line.

[Anonymous Coward]

What has it gots in its pocketses?

Good thing you're not black

[Anonymous Coward]

Or it might have went like this:

Cop: Hey boy, whats going on?
Me: Nothi....
Cop's begin beating you

Re:I spent 8 hours in jail for this

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me get this straight. You read slashdot but you go to parties and drive around with girls?
dude we know your lying.

Re:I was arrested for this offense in Texas

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

Walking is a very suspicious activity. The only people who walk are (1) criminals or (2) people who are too poor to buy a car and so are probably also criminal.

Re:Wear the yellow star

[torpor]

no no, its not sig heil, its ... "whatever ..."

Re:Wear the yellow star

[Anonymous Coward]

You know, the Nazis had pieces of Flair that they made the Jews wear.

Re:I spent 8 hours in jail for this

[flacco]

From those nights, I've lost most of my regard that I once had for police officers. Luckily, I have not lost my regard for my fellow man.

just give it awhile, you'll get there.

note to moderators: not funny.

FINALLY ON TOPIC!

[Lord Kano]

In Soviet Russia, the police...um apparently operate the same way as those in Nevada.

Re:I write a weekly newspaper column

[Riktov]

Assume you live in the typical suburban neighborhood. Now assume your 10 year old son and 2 of his 10 year old friends went on a ride to the local park to play on the swings on Sunday afternoon.

Would be OK for a cop to arrest these 12 year old for not producing an ID?

It's certainly not a crime, but I think that any child that ages from 10 to 12 years old within the span of one Sunday afternoon would arouse some suspicion!