California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Hason, B275903 (Cal. App. 2017):
Appellant's contention fails, as officers may request identification when there is a parking violation and the vehicle's driver or owner is present. In People v. Hart (1999) 74 Cal.App.4th 479, 488-489 (Hart), police officers responded to a nighttime call regarding a suspicious van in a residential neighborhood and found that it was illegally parked. When officers knocked on the van's door, the driver opened the door. (Id. at pp. 483-484.) The officers asked the driver to produce identification, but she replied that her identification was lost somewhere inside the van. (Ibid.) After the driver refused to consent to a search of the van, the officers looked inside the van for her identification and
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