: If police ask, you must give your name | csmonitor.com

Court: If police ask, you must give your name | csmonitor.com: "Court: If police ask, you must give your name

The high court rules 5 to 4 that officers can arrest people who won't reveal their identity.

By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON � US citizens do not enjoy a constitutional right to refuse to reveal their identity when requested by police.
In what may become a major boost to US law enforcement and antiterrorism efforts, the US Supreme Court Monday upheld a Nevada law that makes it a criminal offense for anyone suspected of wrongdoing to refuse to identify himself to police."