Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Utah

Law enforcement officers may attempt to engage a person in voluntary conversation in a public place such as on a sidewalk or in an airport or in a train station, but the person approached need not answer any questions; s/he may decline to listen to the questions at all and may go on his or her way, and s/he may not be detained even momentarily without reasonable objective grounds for doing so and his or her refusal to listen or answer, does not, without more, furnish these grounds.

true or false

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Asked on 10/28/09, 2:01 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Charles Aspinwall Charles S. Aspinwall, J.D., LLC

True. 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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Answered on 11/03/09, 11:21 am


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