ALERT! a non-gun related J/PS posting - Cops and your name

[Wickerman]

Anyone wanna talk about the SCOTUS decision yesterday and its implications? Seems slippery slope to me.


http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/8982001.htm?1c
Court: Police can require name

NEVADA IDENTIFICATION DISCLOSURE CALLED A MODEST INTRUSION ON PRIVACY

By Charles Lane

Washington Post

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a state law that makes it a crime to refuse to tell the police one's name when stopped for suspicious behavior, a ruling that strengthens the ability of law enforcement officers to detain citizens even where they lack enough evidence for a full arrest.

By a vote of 5-4, the court ruled that Larry Dudley Hiibel's constitutional rights to be free of unreasonable arrest and to remain silent were not violated when Deputy Lee Dove arrested him for refusing to give his name after Dove stopped Hiibel and questioned him near Winnemucca, Nev., on May 21, 2000. Hiibel was convicted of violating Nevada's ``stop and identify'' law and fined $250.

Hiibel and his supporters, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, had urged the court to strike down the Nevada statute, arguing that it effectively criminalizes a citizen's silence.
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