The court ordered Don R. Ickes' conviction overturned on the ground that his Fourth Amendment right to protection from unreasonable searches and seizures was violated.
 

wo officers with the state Game Commission went to Ickes' property in April 1999 to speak to him about an alleged violation that had occurred four months earlier and asked him to produce identification to confirm that he was in fact Ickes.

Ickes refused, informing the game officers that he was advised by his attorney not to answer any questions. He was cited and later convicted of violating a section of the state Game Code that declared it unlawful for any person to refuse to produce identification upon the request of a game officer.

The state argued that the officers had a reasonable suspicion to stop and question Ickes because they were investigating alleged criminal activity.

But the three-judge panel disagreed, saying that such grounds for a stop only apply to immediate suspicions of current illegal conduct.

The court ruled that the statute was unconstitutional and said Ickes was under no legal obligation to produce identification or answer the officers' questions.