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- Title: Kolender v. Lawson
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 02, 1983
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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This appeal presents a facial challenge to a criminal statute that requires persons who loiter or wander on the streets to provide a "credible and reliable" identification and to account for their presence when requested by a peace officer under circumstances that would justify a stop under the standards of Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968). We conclude that the statute as it has been construed is unconstitutionally vague within the meaning of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to clarify what is contemplated