6.5

• Jurisdiction: Arizona

§ 6.5 Identity

A person’s identity cannot be suppressed as a fruit of an illegal arrest. INS v. Lopez-Mendoza, 468 U.S. 1032, 1039 (1984) (“The ‘body’ or identity of a defendant . . . is never itself suppressible as a fruit of an unlawful arrest.”); Hoonsilapa v. United States, 575 F.2d 735, 738, modified by 586 F.2d 755 (9th Cir. 1978) (there is no sanction to be applied with an illegal arrest leads only to the discovery of a man’s identity); United States v. Foppe, 993 F.2d 1444, 1449 (9th Cir. 1993)...