On Mon, 12 Feb 2001
kallen3@icircus.net wrote:
> 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.
The mere act of refusing to stop to be searched would not be the act of
defrauding.
--
Bob Holtzman
"If you think you're getting free lunch
......check the price of the beer!"
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