Well, I don't know too much about the law, and how it pertains specifically to photographing "crime scenes", but I do know a little bit about criminal law.
I don't know how photographing police officers at their work "impedes" anything. It may piss them off, but it doesn't impede them from carrying out thier duties - assuming that you're far enough away from the action that you're not physically impeding them from moving about. If an officer thinks that you've photographed relevent evidence, he or she may ask you for the film, but as far as I know, one has no obligation to hand it over. If you refuse to hand it over, they can subpoena the film, or subpoena both you and the film, for any future court case. But if one refuses to hand it over, I believe that an arrest would be an intolerable abuse of power, and an illegal arrest and imprisonment to boot. To illegally arrest a photograper in order to seize film would probably taint that evidence to the extent that it couldn't be used in court. That's not to say that nasty officers wouldn't threaten arrest. That's not to say that they wouldn't actually arrest someone in order to get their film. But such an arrest would, imho, be highly illegal, and leave the arresting officer potentially liable in a fairly large civil suit. And, if they did subpoena the film as evidence, it would have to be returned to the rightful owner after the court proceedings, just as any other evidence has to be. Of course, what the law is, and how police officers act are sometimes two different things... regards, frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If the officer wanted to be nasty, he could have cited you for impeding an > ongoing investigation. > Your defense? None for in effect, you would be guilty. -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
