Sounds like we need to be dictating into cellphones, with remote recording! Marc de Piolenc measl@mfn.org wrote:
When the Terry stop escalated, and I was ordered to follow the officer for more questioning, I asked him, while holding out the recorder for the answer, whether I was under arrest. Answer: no. Followed by "Am I free to go?". Answer no. "Sir, I believe these two conditions are mutually exclusive: either I am under arrest, or I am free to go. As I have things to do, I need to know which it is, so that I may either go do them, or call my attorney to join us".
My reward was a crushed microcassette recorder, a "missing" cassette (he claimed the recorder was both damaged and empty at the time he first encountered it), and an arrest (and conviction no less!).