While that particularly deputy sounds as inept as hell, he had legal backing for demanding the man's ID. Unfortunately, he is going to lose his appeal. Now, if there hadn't been a call to get the Sheriff out there, particularly one involving violence of any kind, he wouldn't have had any legal reason to ask.
Frankly, I'm surprised that the Supreme court is hearing this case. They're going to have to uphold his conviction even though law enforcement shouldn't and doesn't have the right to do random ID checks. This particularly incident gave Deputy Dumbass reason to request ID, so it was legal for him to demand it even though the guy didn't know why.
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