i had a consensual encounter with an officer not too long ago. not sure if i recounted it here on piggington. i was dressed raggedly, sweating profusely and carrying heavy weights. i sure looked suspicious. in reality I was doing a “farmers walk”, but i looked perhaps like a drug freak who had stolen something heavy?
so the policeofficer stopped me and we chatted. I was rather amiable, as was he, though i refused to identify myself.
I ran through the 4th amendment analysis with him out loud , doing my little legal analysis, running through the facts and the law, pointing out various factors that might support the stop, others that wouldn’t , what i thought a judge might do, what i speculated the police officer might say ina later report, how he might shade the truth. On balance, I concluded that there was no legal basis for the stop and that i was free to go, but that I was sufficently intimdated by him and the possibility that it might be characterized differently by him that i would accede to his request and give him some id.
he laughed and ran my id.
“you’re a lawyer, eh?” he said
yup, i replied.
of course, under different circumstances, or perhaps if I had been a bit more obnoxious, he mightve broken my skinny ass little neck. .
