{"id":63465,"date":"2026-03-05T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63465"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:21:13","slug":"ar-overrules-state-constitutions-pretextual-arrest-case-from-2002-reasonableness-is-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63465","title":{"rendered":"AR overrules state constitution&#8217;s pretextual arrest case from 2002; reasonableness is the key"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Arkansas overrules State v. Sullivan, 348 Ark. 647, 74 S.W.3d 215 (2002), which held that a pretextual arrest violated the state constitution, holding this time that Fourth Amendment reasonableness should control. <a href=\"https:\/\/opinions.arcourts.gov\/ark\/supremecourt\/en\/item\/524258\/index.do\">Gamble v. State<\/a>, 2026 Ark. 44 (Mar. 5, 2026) (5-2, dissent noting that the holding violates the party presentation rule which is now applied unevenly (maybe when it only helps the state?).)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas overrules State v. Sullivan, 348 Ark. 647, 74 S.W.3d 215 (2002), which held that a pretextual arrest violated the state constitution, holding this time that Fourth Amendment reasonableness should control. Gamble v. State, 2026 Ark. 44 (Mar. 5, 2026) &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63465\">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":[63,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonableness","category-state-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63465","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=63465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63469,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63465\/revisions\/63469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}