Fourth Amendment In Texas

Two police officers,while cursing near noon in a patrol car, observed Brown and another man walking away from one another in an ally in an area with high incidence of drug traffic. The police officers stopped and asked Brown to identify himself and explain what was he doing. Though the reason why the police officer arrested the defendant was because he looked suspicious and as well the police officers had reasonable suspicion that he wasn’t from this side of town. Though Brown refused to identify himself, he was arrested for violation of a Texas statute which makes it a criminal act for a person to refuse his name and address to an officer who has lawfully stopped him and requested for his information. Brown’s First,Fourth,Fifth,and Fourteenth …show more content…
As well the court also stated that detaining a person to require him to identify himself with lack of evidence against him/her violates their Fourth Amendment right.The Fourth Amendment requires such action,or that the seizure should be carried out pursuant to plan embodying explicit,neutral limitations of individual officers.In other words, a police officer can’t arrest you,detain you,or search you without a search warrant or an arrest warnat. Though there are some expectations on getting search or being detained,like for instances if a police officer asks your permission to search in your belongings and you agree then that’s not considered an intrusion of your privacy because you allowed him/her to search in your belongings. Same goes for being arrested because in order to be charged with a crime police officers must have reasonable suspicion and enough evidence to charge you with that crime.So, in the case of Brown v. Texas the court of Texas stated that Brown was not involved in any criminal activity because there was lack of evidence and little reasonable suspicion as well the police officer's actions were unjustified when arresting