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  2. Detention (confinement) - Wikipedia

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    In some jurisdictions, individuals may be detained by police for questioning or for the execution of a search of a person, place, or thing. [10] Individuals may also be detained by private individuals pending the arrival of police or other relevant law enforcement agency, often referred to as a citizen's arrest.

  3. Arbitrary arrest and detention - Wikipedia

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    An arrest is arbitrary when there is insufficient evidence to condemn an individual, and when there is no legal basis to the arrest. The law states that anyone that is detained without legal basis or on the foundation of insufficient evidence should be released, however the authorities of Mozambique have that responsibility, and have been found ...

  4. Arrest - Wikipedia

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    An arrest is the act of apprehending and taking a person into custody (legal protection or control), usually because the person has been suspected of or observed committing a crime. After being taken into custody, the person can be questioned further or charged .

  5. Pre-trial detention - Wikipedia

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    The pre-charge detention period is the period of time during which an individual can be held and questioned by police, prior to being charged with an offence. [5] Not all countries have such a concept, and in those that do, the period for which a person may be detained without charge varies by jurisdiction.

  6. Stop and identify statutes - Wikipedia

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    Texas law requires a person to provide their name, residence address and date of birth if lawfully arrested and asked by police. (A detained person or witness of a crime is not required to provide any identifying information; however, it is a crime for a detained person or witness to give a false name.) Texas P.C. 38.02

  7. People can't be detained just for trying to avoid police ...

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    Police officers cannot detain someone on the street just because that person acts furtively to avoid contact with them, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

  8. Reasonable suspicion - Wikipedia

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    Reasonable suspicion is a legal standard of proof that in United States law is less than probable cause, the legal standard for arrests and warrants, but more than an "inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or 'hunch ' "; [1] it must be based on "specific and articulable facts", "taken together with rational inferences from those facts", [2] and the suspicion must be associated with the ...

  9. Arrest warrant - Wikipedia

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    An arrest warrant is an "outstanding arrest warrant" when the person named in the warrant has not yet been arrested. A warrant may be outstanding if the person named in the warrant is intentionally evading law enforcement , unaware that there is a warrant out for their arrest, the agency responsible for executing the warrant has a backlog of ...