Tornado Alley (PROG)

[oldberkeley]

I’m just about the only one in my family who’s not an attorney, but it’s a body of knowledge that has always fascinated me and I’ve managed to learn quite a bit about it.

One of my best friends in town is a well-known law professor, and to make sure that Peg and I were not talking at cross-purposes, I just spoke to him on the phone.

He laughed and said that to a large extent it’s a matter of semantics and common usage: any time a police officer stops you, you are technically arrested (stopped), but for all practical purposes the real meaning is reserved for when that officer takes you into custody.

He did agree that many people misunderstand the difference between being arrested and being charged.

I have no idea about the particulars of the Florida law.

More importantly, what I do know is that I abhor the disgusting racial slurs and stereotypes that have been so freely flying around, most of them from you.