Read and Critically Analyze the process of Laws of Arrest found in HUNT, chapter 7, pages 87-90.
Define the following terms and concepts:
Consensual Encounter
Detention
Arrest
Articulable Suspicion
Reasonable Suspicion
Probable Cause
PC§ 834c – Rights of Detained Foreign National; Notice to Foreign Government
(a)(1) In accordance with federal law and provisions of this section, every peace officer, upon arrest and booking or detention for more than two hours of a known or suspected foreign national, shall advise the foreign national that he or she has the right to communicate with an official from the consulate of his or her country, except as provided in subdivision (d). If the foreign national chooses to exercise that right, the peace officer shall notify the pertinent official in his or her agency or department of the arrest or detention and that the foreign national wants his or her consulate notified.
PC§148 – Resist, Obstruct, Delay of Peace Officer or EMT
(a)(1) Every person who willfully resists, delays, or obstructs any public officer, peace officer, or an emergency medical technician in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty of his or her office or employment, when no other punishment is prescribed, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year or by both that fine and imprisonment.
PC§ 148.9 – Giving False Information to a Police Officer
(a)(1) Any person who falsely represents or identifies himself or herself as another person or as a fictitious person to any peace officer upon a lawful detention or arrest of the person, either to evade the process of the court or to evade the proper identification of the person by the investigating officer is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) Any person who falsely represents or identifies himself or herself as another person or as a fictitious person to any other peace officer upon lawful detention or arrest of the person, either to evade the process of the court, or to evade the proper identification of the person by the arresting officer is guilty of a misdemeanor if 1) the false information is given while the peace officer is engaged in the performance of his or her duties as a peace officer and 2) if the person providing the false information knows or should have known that the person receiving the information is a peace officer.
