Talk:Stop and Identify statutes

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[edit] Sources for section 'How to satisfy the minimum required duties'

This section has been marked as needing sources by User:198.239.71.118. It is merely a legal-analysis extrapolation based on the information provided previously in the article and should require no additional sources. Jkatzen 03:48, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Maybe so, but where are the sources for that? [Note:Different person] 68.39.174.238 03:55, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] On the "How to satisfy the minimum required duties"

As helpful as this section is for someone not familiar with the law, I do not believe that it belongs in an encyclopedia. If someone feels the same way, please remove this section (or rephrase it). As mentioned above, Wikipedia should not be in the business of advising people on the law. It should only state facts which can be cited. Now, if you could find a reliable source for this information, and you rephrased it so that it wasn't directly advice on how to give the cops the least information possible, then I would be OK with it.Njerseyguy 05:52, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

You are totally right. Even though it pretends not to be so, this section is legal advice, and therefore amounts to an illegal practice of law. Even if it weren't it doesn't add anything that a sensible person cannot figure out from the first part of the article. I deleted it. --151.203.239.219 07:29, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. I would characterize it as a more detailed explanation of what the law involves and how it operates. I feel like the first questions any reader will have when seeing the initial information is, "How does this work in practice, what rights are triggered, and what does it entail?" Jkatzen 08:48, 12 December 2006 (UTC)