[Hodar]

Hm ... Maybe you should reread your tagline, too. Don’t you notice a tension between believing that ‘feelings’ of officials should take a back seat to actual laws, and then turning around and being O.K. with officials holding a guy until he submits?

The actual laws in Utah, state that you must identify yourself. If you want to prove a point and rot in jail - I guess that is your right. No one is torturing this man to give up his name. He's just sitting in a cell until he gives his name - how long he sits there is entirely up to him.

[reaganaut]

So charge him under that statute as a John Doe and call it time served. If he hasn’t been before a magistrate regarding this matter, then the POLICE are the ones that have broken the Utah law.

Indefinite incarceration for a class B MISDEMONOR is cruel and unusual punishment.