If I didnt have a driving licence or passport, I didnt have a home or pay bills, and I dont have any documents of any kind, what could the police or courts do if I was arrested for beating someone up? I know you dont need a home because they say 'no fixed abode' but what happens if you havent and wont provide a name?
2007-09-11 06:10:31 · 26 answers · asked by futuretopgun101 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
I like the fact that most people who answered assume I did beat someone up and that I am actually describing myself.
All I wanted to know was how the law gets around it.
2007-09-11 06:23:51 · update #1
they 'ave vays ov mekkin' you talk
2007-09-11 06:17:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you could not be identified through fingerprints, you would be held as a John Doe, and tried as such. In the interim, your picture would be distributed nationwide, and run in the local news. It might even make the national news since it is such an unusual story. At that point, someone you know will recognize you and give your identity to the authorities.
If not identified and convicted, you would be sent to prison as John Doe, and would be assigned an inmate number. Once you reach prison, you will be required to provide a DNA sample. Your fingerprints and DNA sample would be on the NCIC and if you ever attempted to get any type of ID in the future, all id would have the arrest and conviction matched to it.
2007-09-11 13:36:11 · answer #2 · answered by CGIV76 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can be held and charged with Obstruction of Justice for failing to give your name. In the meantime there are other ways to find out your identity such as a social security number and date of birth. Your best bet is to quit playing games that will cause you more trouble down the road and just give the officer your name when asked.
2007-09-11 13:20:44 · answer #3 · answered by siamsa_siamsa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Register of births and deaths,
Voters checks
then if nothing else checking with family, neighbours etc.
If there is no reason to disbelieve the details you are giving then we just accept it. If we have a decent suspicion you are giving false details whilst being investigated for an indictable offence then you would be kept in custody
2007-09-11 13:42:41 · answer #4 · answered by the mofo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In North Carolina you would be booked as a John Doe and would sit in jail until you proved who you were.
They won't let you post bond because there would be the obvious problem of finding you if you did not come to court.
2007-09-11 14:21:04 · answer #5 · answered by El Scott 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then you will be classed as a no-body, which is what it sounds like you are. If you are over 16 then you must have a national insurance number, so they would have sent it somewhere. But then if you have never worked then you wouldn't have had any reason to use your N.I. number. If you are proud to say that you don't live anywhere or have any ID then you must feel really good about yourself.
2007-09-11 13:18:21 · answer #6 · answered by Lisa T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not only will u be charged for assault but ull be charged for not co-operating and giving false identification....u just cant do that, it doesnt matter if you dont have bills in your name or anything like that...u have a ssn, u have finger prints, people know who u are and where u come from...if u didnt want to get arrested or get in trouble, y beat someone up and get caught??
2007-09-11 13:21:21 · answer #7 · answered by BabyGirl0218 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You get held in jail indefinately until you provide a name that is verifiable.
After a while you will get tired and spill your guts.
We got one every so often that thought he could get released after 48 hours if he didn't give any info. After three days he sang like a bird (and cried like a baby.)
2007-09-11 16:11:01 · answer #8 · answered by Charlie Fingers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the Police and the Judges will realize that they are dealing with a very superior intellect and they will be too scared of you to do anything. I am sure that they won't want to risk making you angry with them so they will put you up in the Ritz with free food, booze and hookers and plead with you not to do anything to hurt them. Go for it!
2007-09-11 14:40:32 · answer #9 · answered by Wunout O 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But children are assigned a social security number when they are born now.
Well, just venturing a guess here. If you don't provide info, I guess you possibly will have a new home, and three meals a day, and a roommate named Shredder.
2007-09-11 13:19:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jason is right, plus you would never be offered any kind of a bail, and would never be released until you were tried, the court would be relentlessly hard on you, and you would probably be charged with failure to cooperate and conspiracy charges also. It would not be a good move.
2007-09-11 13:18:22 · answer #11 · answered by Nicholas N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋