0 an occasion when police officers take a person who has been arrested for a crime through a public area so he or she can be seen and photographed by the media
At the same time, the term perp walk became common usage for the practice.
Legal criticism of the perp walk is not limited to the defense bar.
It's those silly questions that elevate a perp walk to a circus.
But we also know that the perp walk often looks and feels like a circus.
Defendants who can anticipate their arrest often dress with the perp walk in mind.
The next year a perp walk ended tragically.
A community shaken by an act of deviancy wants reassurance that moral order has been restored, and a perp walk accomplishes this much more quickly than the courts can.
At the same time, another suit challenged the constitutionality of perp walks "per se".
