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Police and federal agents may lawfully demand identification when the encounter rises to a lawful Terry stop—that is, when officers have reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity—because ...
Legal protections for refusing to identify oneself during a police stop are a patchwork of constitutional rules and state statutes: the Supreme Court has allowed some “stop-and-identify” laws while re...
The Supreme Court in Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada held that a state “stop-and-identify” statute that requires a detainee to disclose his name during a lawful Terry stop does not v...
The Supreme Court’s core framework governing when citizens can be required to show identification to police flows from Terry v. Ohio, which authorizes brief stops on reasonable suspicion, and from Hii...
The Supreme Court in Hiibel upheld a Nevada “stop-and-identify” law, ruling that a suspect can be compelled to disclose his name during a Terry investigatory stop when the disclosure is not reasonably...