Nevada Case Threatens to Expand Terry Stops

Authors

Shaun B. Spencer, University of Massachusetts School of Law - DartmouthFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2004

Abstract

This term, the U.S. Supreme Court will review a Nevada decision authorizing police to arrest people for refusing to identify themselves. If affirmed, the decision could reshape how privacy is viewed in the criminal context throughout the United States, and could prompt the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to depart from the Supreme Court’s approach to stop-and-frisk cases. The case is Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court, 59 P.3d 1201 (Nev. 2002), cert. granted, 124 S. Ct. 430 (2003).

Comments

Reprinted with permission from the Boston Bar Journal, a publication of the Boston Bar Association.

Recommended Citation

Shaun B. Spencer, Nevada Case Threatens to Expand Terry Stops, 48 Boston Bar J. 27 (2004).