Or, here's a fancy idea; I got this weird little box in my pocket that lets me access the vast majority of the writings of mankind, including all Texas statutes. I bet the cop has one too. He could've stopped looking at lolcats long enough to Google it.n5wd wrote:The arrest should voided right away, and the officer that arrested him should be required to apologize to the arrestee for not knowing, and more importantly, not asking a supervisor if he was unsure of the law.
I'm rapidly coming to a point in being tired of ignorance of the law only being an excuse for those who are paid to know it, that I'm starting to favor having the officer suffer the maximum penalties his victim would have had to if the law he made up had actually existed.