People v. Niedzwiedz

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “[a] police officer exceeds his authority to make a citizen’s arrest ... when he uses the powers of his office to gather evidence unavailable to the private citizen outside his jurisdiction”
• finding law enforcement officer's extraterritorial arrest for driving under the influence was a valid citizen's arrest
• “A police officer can make an extraterritorial warrantless arrest in the same situation that any citizen can make an arrest.”
• breach of the peace when defendant drove car across center line and fog line on several occasions
• “A police officer exceeds his authority to make a citizen’s arrest, however, when he uses the powers of his office to gather evidence unavailable to the private citizen outside his jurisdiction.” (citation omitted)
• “[a] police officer exceeds his authority to make a citizen’s arrest ... when he uses the powers of his office to gather evidence unavailable to the private citizen outside his jurisdiction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).