> 
> At 12:40 AM 02/12/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >> 
> >> At 12:17 PM 02/11/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >> >I've questioned this policy when I've encountered it in other retail
> >> >stores. The answer I've gotten was that no one forced you to enter the
> >> >store so by entering you have give prior consent to the stop and any
> >> >inspection. If you did not want to be stopped or have your purchases
> >> >checked then you should have gone someplace else. That has been the
> >> >standard answer in about 17 states including Arizona.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Whose answer? The store's? The various state's Attorneys General?
> >
> >The stores, states' AG, police departments, courts
> >
> >
> Interesting. Any word as to exactly what law would be broken by a refusal
> to stop and be searched?
> Bob Holtzman 
> "If you think you're getting free lunch,
> check the price of the beer!"
> 
My understanding is no criminal law up to that moment. But if insist that
you stop then in some states that is considered the right of the merchant
and is written into a law. I'm not sure if that applies to Arizona but in
Arizona there is a law about Defrauding an Inn Keeper which is a blanket
law under which many different situations are prosecuted (refusal to pay
for a service or product is one in which I had to use that law). Also as
someone else touched upon there is a citzen's arrest. And no the police
won't arrest you if it proves wrong (unless you place the person you are
trying to arrest in physical jeopardy such as assualting them) BUT you do
open yourself up to a civil suit if you are wrong.