wainwright v. New Orleans?

Answer 1

This case is found at 392 U.S. 598 [1968]

On October 12, 1964, Wainwright, a student at Tulane University Law School, was out walking around midnight. Two New Orleans Police Department officers stopped him because, in their opinion, he fitted the description of a man suspected of murder.

Wainwright told the officers he had identification at home, but not on his person. The officers then asked Wainwright to remove this jacket so that they could search him for a tattoo that the suspected murdered had on his left arm. Wainwright ultimately refused to do so after trying to walk away and some mild verbal sparing.

The officers then arrested him on a charge of vagrancy by loitering and frisked him. After Wainwright continued to refuse to remove his jacket at the police station, officers used force to remove it and discovered that he had no tattoo.

Wainwright was convicted of misdemeanor resisting an officer, resisting search subsequent to arrest, and reviling police. His case was originally granted certiorari by the US Supreme Court, but certiorari was subsequently dismissed - there was not enough of a record of the trials in Louisiana for the Supreme Court of the US to decide the issues.

Ultimately, the case means nothing.

Answer 2

what about wainwright (I already know N.O)

Answer 3

What about it?