{"id":4978,"date":"2011-03-20T13:22:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T07:14:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T07:14:43","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4978","title":{"rendered":"MT: Construction flagger made valid citizen&#8217;s arrest for DUI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A road construction flagger saw a possible drunk driver and stopped him. This was a valid citizen\u2019s arrest. <a href=\"http:\/\/fnweb1.isd.doa.state.mt.us\/idmws\/docContent.dll?Library=CISDOCSVR01^doaisd510&amp;ID=003838669\">State v. Schubert<\/a>, 2010 MT 255, 358 Mont. 286, 244 P.3d 748 (2010).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his hotel room as a place where a person could \u201cretreat\u201d as a \u201czone of privacy,\u201d and the police had no reason to believe that the person granting consent to enter the room had apparent authority to do so. <a href=\"http:\/\/weblinks.westlaw.com\/result\/default.aspx?action=Search&amp;cnt=DOC&amp;db=MA-ORSLIP&amp;eq=search&amp;fmqv=c&amp;fn=_top&amp;method=TNC&amp;n=5&amp;origin=Search&amp;query=TO%28ALLSCT+ALLSCTRS+ALLSCTOJ%29&amp;rlt=CLID_QRYRLT8112815461012&amp;rltdb=CLID_DB9969114461012&amp;rlti=1&amp;rp=%2Fsearch%2Fdefault.wl&amp;rs=MAOR1.0&amp;service=Search&amp;sp=MassOF-1001&amp;srch=TRUE&amp;ss=CNT&amp;sskey=CLID_SSSA5072214461012&amp;sv=Split&amp;vr=1.0\">Commonwealth v. Lopez<\/a>, 458 Mass. 383, 937 N.E.2d 949 (2010), rev\u2019g Commonwealth v. Lopez, 74 Mass. App. Ct. 815, 911 N.E.2d 214 (2009).<\/p>\n<p>Because state troopers have authority to execute search warrants statewide, there is no requirement that a sheriff be along for the search to validate it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=42798\">State v. Walker<\/a>, 330 S.W.3d 122 (Mo. App. 2010).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4978\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}