{"id":46229,"date":"2020-11-22T11:12:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T16:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46229"},"modified":"2020-11-22T11:12:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T16:12:17","slug":"ut-when-two-grounds-support-an-arrest-attacking-only-one-means-affirmance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46229","title":{"rendered":"UT: When two grounds support an arrest, attacking only one means affirmance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cDevenpeck, along with Utah appellate law, is controlling here. Whether Officer possessed probable cause to arrest Sanchez for DUI is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether the objective circumstances\u2014the \u2018known facts,\u2019 see Devenpeck, 543 U.S. at 153\u2014provided probable cause for Sanchez&#8217;s arrest. Officer&#8217;s \u2018subjective reason for arresting\u2019 Sanchez\u2014the belief that Sanchez was driving while intoxicated\u2014\u2018does not undermine the district court&#8217;s conclusion that the arrest was nevertheless constitutional\u2019 on the ground that Officer had probable cause to arrest Sanchez for failure to stop. See State v. McLeod, 2018 UT App 52, \u00b6 17, 424 P.3d 1039. And Sanchez does not address this alternative ground identified by the district court for denying his motion to suppress. To the contrary, he admits on appeal that the district court correctly reasoned that Officer could have arrested him for failure to stop. An appellate court &#8220;will not reverse a ruling of the district court that rests on independent alternative grounds where the appellant challenges only one of those grounds.\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utcourts.gov\/opinions\/appopin\/State%20v.%20Sanchez20201119_20190250_158.pdf\">State v. Sanchez<\/a>, 2020 UT App 158, 2020 Utah App. LEXIS 160 (Nov. 20, 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDevenpeck, along with Utah appellate law, is controlling here. Whether Officer possessed probable cause to arrest Sanchez for DUI is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether the objective circumstances\u2014the \u2018known facts,\u2019 see Devenpeck, 543 U.S. at 153\u2014provided probable cause for &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46229\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-probable-cause","category-standards-of-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46230,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46229\/revisions\/46230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}