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Is the use of language other than English 'Reasonable Suspicion' for detention?

It is intuitively crazy to think that speaking Spanish in Montana is evidence of a crime. Still, we will have to wait to see what the courts rule, if it goes that far. We should start with Terry v. Oh …
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What are the powers of a retail security guard compared to a police officer?

A security guard does not have special police privileges, but in the US the shopkeeper has a privilege known as the shopkeeper's privilege to detain a suspected shoplifter for a reasonable time, and t …
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What if a child dies in school detention?

In the US, detention does not add anything: we can generalize the principle to any time when a student is in the custody of the teacher (classroom, field-trip, sporting event...). … But if the child is bleeding and the teacher decides "We can deal with this when detention is over" and the child bleeds to death in the interim, we would conclude that the teacher's lack of care caused …
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Are cops required by law to have "reasonable suspicion" in order to detain a person? If so, ...

If there is no reasonable suspicion of a crime having been committed or about to be committed, then there is no reason to seize you, and the Fourth Amendment "right of the people to be secure in their …
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