What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
Oregon
I'm 20 yrs old and I was at a party on saturday where there was underaged drinking. I myself had had a few beers. After about an hour the police arrived and the host of the party locked all doors and refused to let them in.
I tried to get out of the side of the house and avoid the police but one of them saw me and told me to stop. I stopped, he approached me and asked how old I was. I said absolutely nothing and after a few minutes he handcuffed me and told me that I was disrupting their investigation and that I could go to jail. I then began to talk because I didn't want to go. Ultimately he let me go without asking for id or giving me a sobriety test.
My question is, did I have to talk to him, and if I continued to remain silent is there any way he could have taken me to jail or given me a ticket?
Oregon
I'm 20 yrs old and I was at a party on saturday where there was underaged drinking. I myself had had a few beers. After about an hour the police arrived and the host of the party locked all doors and refused to let them in.
I tried to get out of the side of the house and avoid the police but one of them saw me and told me to stop. I stopped, he approached me and asked how old I was. I said absolutely nothing and after a few minutes he handcuffed me and told me that I was disrupting their investigation and that I could go to jail. I then began to talk because I didn't want to go. Ultimately he let me go without asking for id or giving me a sobriety test.
My question is, did I have to talk to him, and if I continued to remain silent is there any way he could have taken me to jail or given me a ticket?