Letters & E-mails in Carlos Sotomayor Lawsuit

The word "arrest" has a different meaning when it is used in a legal sense, rather the by people on the street.

When a normal person says somebody has been "arrested", they usually mean that the person has been detained by the police, taken to jail and charged with a crime.

When the word "arrest" is use in a legal sense it only means that a person has been detained by the police and is not free to go.

When the word "arrest" is used in a legal sense it DOES NOT mean the person "arrested" has been charged with a crime, like it does when people on the street mean.

If a cop stops you and writes you a traffic ticket and then lets you go in a legal sense you have been "arrested" because you were detained by the cop and not free to go while he was writing you the ticket.

If a cop handcuffs a person and then later lets the person go without charging the person with a crime that person was "arrested" by the police because they were being detained by the police while they were handcuffed and not free to go.

In all of the lawsuits I filed against the police I sued them for false arrested, because I was detained by the police and not free to go.

I was not charged with a crime in any of those cases, but in a legal sense I was arrested because I was detained by the cops and not free to go.

In the case that happened to us at Papago Park I suspect that we were also "arrested".

Even though we were not physically detained by the police we were deprived of our freedom to shoot photos and I suspect for that reason we were "under arrest".

I googled for "arrest" to see if that definition was correct and one of the dictionary definitions for "arrest" agreed with me in that sense.

I still have to go to one of the law libraries and see if most courts would agree that we were arrested in a legal sense because we were deprived of our right to freely shoot photos.

I will give you an update when I do that.

Thanks