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To: Enterprise
I figure Best Buy didn't detain him. He could walk out on them. But the cops physically restrained him, and he could NOT leave that.

It looks like false imprisonment on the surface, but as long as there is probable cause, law enforcement can detain us subjects.

93 posted on 04/07/2005 3:29:09 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Since when is trying to pay for a purchase with legal tender "probable cause"?


101 posted on 04/07/2005 3:37:37 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Cboldt; All

I'm presuming using an accepted form of United States legal tender is probable cause to be arrested.


102 posted on 04/07/2005 3:38:52 PM PDT by olde north church ("Hi America, I'm Dr. Howard Dean. Turn your head and cough.")
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To: Cboldt

The issue of probable cause would be interesting. Perhaps a Maryland jury would agree that it was suspicious that someone would try to pay for something with two-dollar bills and he would get nothing.


105 posted on 04/07/2005 3:40:32 PM PDT by Enterprise (Abortion and "euthanasia" - the twin destroyers of the Democrat Party.)
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