OC4me wrote:
If an LEO tells you to leave a business are you then required to leave? Or does the request to leave actually have to be made by an employee of the business?
What if the LEO claims to be passing on the 'message' on behalf of an employee? In cases where an LEO fibs, it would be nice to call his/her bluff, but what does the law say about trespass notification in Michigan?
Tough call. If an LEO tells you to leave, I'm sure that you must leave or you'll be getting cited for trespass. Whether a manager or employee had them ask you to leave would have to be determined later. At the time, tho, if you refused to leave I'm sure you'd be leaving in cuffs.
If an LEO were lying about being requested to ask you to leave, I don't know how you'd identify it as a bluff. Plus, the cost of being wrong would be great, resulting in a free ride to the lock-up. Not a highwire I'm willing to walk.
I'd certainly think that an LEO could tell you to leave, speaking for a manager or employee. As far as them asking you to leave the premises
without having been asked to by a manager/employee, I don't know. I would think that they probably have the authority to do so but I'm not 100% certain.
I can think of domestic cases where no crime was witnessed but a resident was still asked to leave (his own home) and not return. So I don't know...