Legal Opinion
Brown v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 25, 1979No. 77-6673PublishedCited by 2,408 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
This appeal presents the question whether appellant was validly convicted for refusing to comply with a policeman’s demand that he identify himself pursuant to a provision of the Texas Penal Code which makes it a crime to refuse such identification on request.
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At 12:45 in the afternoon of December 9, 1977, Officers Venegas and Sotelo of the El Paso Police Department were cruising in a patrol car. They observed appellant and another man walking in opposite directions away from one another in an alley. Although the two men were a few feet apart when they first were seen, Officer Venegas later…
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