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Offline CitizensHaveRights

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Jaywalking is an arrestable offense?
« on: August 07, 2015, 09:49:24 PM »
I found it interesting that jaywalking involves disrupting traffic, merely walking where there isn't a crosswalk or against a traffic light apparently doesn't rise to the standard of jaywalking.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/08/06/police-stop-man-for-jaywalking-and-find-over-30-bags-of-marijuana-illegal-gun-heres-how-he-escaped-all-charges/

Police arrested Dwight Robinson for jaywalking, then found 30 bags of marijuana and a gun on him during a search, WJBK-TV reported.
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Re: Jaywalking is an arrestable offense?
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2015, 07:16:41 PM »
He'll probably plea. If he had a good lawyer he could probably get the arrest and subsequent search tossed.
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Re: Jaywalking is an arrestable offense?
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2015, 07:35:50 PM »
He'll probably plea. If he had a good lawyer he could probably get the arrest and subsequent search tossed.

Robinson’s lawyer, however, successfully argued that his client wasn’t jaywalking at all. Because he didn’t disrupt any traffic, he was simply “crossing the street.” Therefore, Robinson should never have been stopped — and if he hadn’t been stopped, cops wouldn’t have found the gun or the pot.

“There was a constitutional violation, which superseded the criminal violation,” attorney Andrew Densemo explained to WJBK.

“My client got off because the Constitution says that the laws have to be respected,” Densemo continued. “And the lesson you learn is that the rights of citizens can still be protected by the best legal system in the world.”
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Re: Jaywalking is an arrestable offense?
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2015, 09:35:27 PM »
I wonder if they had to return the gun and the drugs?


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Re: Jaywalking is an arrestable offense?
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2015, 10:02:26 PM »
I wonder if they had to return the gun and the drugs?

If they did, they'd think up a new reason to search him before he made it to the parking lot.
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